Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!apple!amdahl!dwl10 From: dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Pet Peves or Why, oh why do they do this? (long) Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 89 15:11:09 GMT References: <2465@van-bc.UUCP> <574@bnr-fos.UUCP> Reply-To: dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Houston TX Lines: 31 In article <574@bnr-fos.UUCP> protcoop@bnr-public.UUCP (Joel Avery) writes: > >What I really hate is programs that come on a WorkBench disk and >expect you to boot them. Come on folks, the Amiga is a multi- >tasking machine and can (and should) run many programs at one >time. By making your programs need to be booted you eliminate >the possibility of doing this. The first thing I had to do with >MaxiPlan is to sleuth the startup-sequence to make sure there was >nothing special in there. Then I deleted everything that made it >a workbench disk. I would hate to have to do all of that if I >were a novice user who knew nothing about the Amiga. When will >developers realize that we already have our own favorite WorkBench >that we boot with. All they need to supply is a program and an >icon. This sort of packaging is _a_l_m_o_s_t_ acceptable for games, >but for productivity software it is simply unacceptable. It vastly >hinders the usefullness of a multitasking machine, unless you >really know what you are doing. > >Comments? >-------------------------------- You can usually follow the "Hard Disk" install instructions, but install it on a floppy, with appropriate changes. Thats one of the appeal of workbench, the only thing you need to know NT is how to insert a disk, and how to click on an icon. -- "What is another word | Dave Lowrey | [The opinions expressed MAY be for 'Thesaurus'?" | Amdahl Corp. | those of the author and are not | Houston, Texas | necessarily those of his Steven Wright | amdahl!dwl10 | employer] (`nuff said!)