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From: dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dale Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: I need a BBS to buy an Amiga!
Keywords: Atredes BBS
Message-ID: <3124@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 5 Aug 89 16:12:07 GMT
References: <20189@louie.udel.EDU> <20717@cup.portal.com> <1587@elroy.uh.edu> <11378@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com>
Reply-To: dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dale Larson)
Organization: The Evergreen State College,  WA
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In article <11378@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> stan@teroach.UUCP (Stan Fisher) writes:
>In article <1587@elroy.uh.edu> COSC60I@elroy.uh.edu (Bandolar) writes:
>>What I want eventually is:
>>
>>	o Easy to maintain
>>	o Never crashes unless there is a good reason (power failure)
>>	o Can run sub programs
>>	o Optional ability to send codes to cause pictures to be displayed
>>	o Similar ability to send codes that cause sounds to be played
>
>I've just aquired Atredes1.1 for our Amiga user group BBS.  I'm in the 
>process of installing it on my 2500.  So far it seems to be very versatle
>and powerfull.
>It really is a classy looking system both from the user end and the Sysop end.

Either you haven't finished installing it yet, or Atredes made a LOT (more 
than a lot!) of changes since 1.0.  I am a co-sysop on a local Amiga board
that has been using Atredes 1.0 for several months (we've been trying to get
them to send us 1.1 for that long, though I heard that it came in this week!).
We have had nothing but problems from day 1.  It has been an incredible pain
to maintain - screens do not save unless you do things in some particular 
order, no remote maintence, 3 versions of each file (ascii, ansi, skypix)
with little or no mention in the manual of what each file is, an up/download
section that sucks rocks, frequent lock-ups, gurus, and even forgetting of
ASSIGNs!, etc. etc.

If you have it running for a while and you still think highly of it, please
let me know.  If you have half as many problems with 1.1 as we have with
1.0, by all means, please take back your praise so that no more money is
wasted on a piece of crap (IMHO)!


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 dTb                                                                       dTb
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