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From: bill@meadow.UUCP (Bill Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Zoomracks
Message-ID: <112@meadow.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jul 89 07:59:18 GMT
Organization: The meadow  :  Hayward, CA
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> In article <8907112259.AA07041@cs.wm.edu> csrobe@CS.WM.EDU (Chip Roberson) writes:
> >From what I read in ST report, it seems more likely that Quickview had
> >a really rough time trying to get the marketing and advertising going.
> >I remember seeing the box for it in the computer store when I bought my
> >ST 4 years ago, but I did not know that it was a card-oriented thought
> >processor like HyperCard until I read STReport a few weeks back.
>
> I have problems with Chip's suggestion.  I bought Zoomracks II.  I PAID for
> an update version, oh, about 2 years back which I still have not received.
> Quickview Systems does not _deserve_ any "support" from Atari ST owners, as
> their own level of support to registered users who PAID for the next version
> of their product has been zilch.
> 
> The program itself has quirks which were, at one time, not too frustrating
> to deal with.  However, in the years since its initial release, Zoomracks
> has become less and less useful.  It is NOT a HyperCard.  It was written
> (so I've been told) in a version of Forth which does not take kindly to
> such things as desk accessories and RAM disks.  Use of the mouse is, for
> all practical purposes, nil.  It does not use the GEM interface, and the
> keyboard manipulations you need to do in order to accomplish something are
> on par with early versions of Word Star on CP/M systems.  Be prepared to
> make use of your Alternate key as you've never used it before!

> By the way -- are there any other dissatisfied Zoomracks owners who paid for
> the upgrade who might be interested in a class-action suit against Quickview
> Systems?
> 
> -- Dave Meile 

If you want to use a database, why not buy an IBM compat??  I own an ST
and an AT, the combo is far from perfect for they are not yet even really
talking to eachother (help is on the way).  The AT outperforms the ST in
sheer speed and the amount of software that's out there, but the ST is a
superior machine because of the way it was designed and the way I like to
program it.
  It would be nice to be able to look/work with every machine that is out
there so that one may make an intelligent decision on what to buy.
  Don't sue zoomracks - ask for your money back.  I bet they put a lot of
work into a project that one would pay money for (as much work as someone
working for microsoft).  Sure, they were fools to write it in forth (ah)
and sell something they didn't have, but you can't get something for nothing.
Really.

                  BFOSTER = GEnie,  WHTB33B = Prodigy
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