Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pacbell!att!mcdchg!ddsw1!corpane!sparks From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Pet Peves or Why, oh why do they do this? (long) Message-ID: <818@corpane.UUCP> Date: 15 Jun 89 12:49:28 GMT References: <2465@van-bc.UUCP> <574@bnr-fos.UUCP> Organization: Corpane Industries Inc., Louisville, KY Lines: 39 Sender: Reply-To: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc. Keywords: >In article <574@bnr-fos.UUCP> protcoop@bnr-public.UUCP (Joel Avery) writes: >> 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. >>Comments? Well, In my opinion there is nothing wrong with a company making their software bootable (including it on a workbench disk) such as you describe with Maxiplan. You can still boot off your standard workbench if you wish and put such a disk in the other drive, open the disk, and click the icon. no need to remove all the workbench stuff off the disk. It's just there in case you want to boot off of their disk. The program doesn't stop you from using your own workbench. The real pain is the programs that take over the machine and you HAVE to boot from them and can't have anything else running. Many games are like this. Mostly because of strange copy protection schemes. When will manufacturers realize that WE HATE THAT!!!! We would like to put some of these programs on hard disk. But we can't because of the STOOPID way they make their programs work. Electronic Arts is real bad about this on most of their games. And Psygnosis (sp?) also. I bet their programs for IBM don't stop users from putting them on hard disks. Why on the Amiga? -- John Sparks | {rutgers|uunet}!ukma!corpane!sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps ||||||||||||||| sparks@corpane.UUCP | 502/968-5401 thru -5406 You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.