Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!xanth!indri!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!perry
From: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CEDPro release 2 questions
Summary: Re: CEDPro release 2 answers
Keywords: ASDG Perry CygnusEd CED
Message-ID: <799@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 89 20:14:38 GMT
References: <497@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz)
Organization: ASDG Incorporated
Lines: 47

In article <497@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall) writes:
>Has anyone out there received notification of the upcoming new release
>of ASDG's CygnusEd Pro?  I'm a registered user but have received nothing.
>When will it be available?  How much?  Thanks!

Notices have not been mailed  yet. We are behind schedule having made the choice
to make Release 2 the best possible product. The product is currently undergoing
exhaustive test. And, an entirely new manual is being written.

To give you an impression of the work going into release 2:

	The first release's manual was 140K in AmigaTeX. I've thrown away 
	about 80K of this so far so we're down to 60K. The new manual  is
	currently 280K and still growing. That's 220K of new quality man-
	ual so far. This takes time, we're sorry about that...but the re-
	sults will be quite worth it.

	(I've been working full time on the  manual  for  two months now,
	my left hand is litterally numb from carple tunnle syndrome. Bruce
	[the program's author] has been working intensively for the last 
	year on the the new release. Why am I telling you this? Because 
	the recent piracy discussion is really getting to me. Why the fuck
	are we knocking ourselves out? Piracy doesn't hurt? Then tell me
	why more and more of my friends that I have known since the start 
	of the Amiga are giving up and closing down their businesses?)

Anway, upgrades were going to cost $16 including manual addendum, disk, and
domestic postage. But instead we'll provide an entirely new manual, disk,
and domestic postage for $25. (sure...call us greedy. Maybe we should have
kept it at $16 and lost money on it. After all, why should this be any
different from all our other products?)

Your original CEDPro disk will be REQUIRED. If it doesn't arrive with your
check we will cheerfully cash your check, keep the money and send you nothing. 
(god I've got to do something about my cynicism). 

Notices to registered users will be going out shortly. Please don't send in
for upgrades until you see a message here or get one in your physical mail box.
As I've said...we're working as hard as we can and we'll release it when it's
as good as we can make it.


-- 
                        Perry Kivolowitz, ASDG Inc.
ARPA: madnix!perry@cs.wisc.edu   {uunet|ncoast}!marque!
UUCP: {harvard|rutgers|ucbvax}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!perry
CIS:  76004,1765 (what was that about ``giggling teenagers''?)