Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!ccu!bright From: bright@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Bob Bright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari Financial condition Keywords: Gloom & Doom Message-ID: <1990Mar27.191012.10607@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 27 Mar 90 19:10:12 GMT References: <5780001@acf5.NYU.EDU> <3204@draken.nada.kth.se> <1990Mar25.071703.3839@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Mar26.071218.10123@chinet.chi.il.us> <1238@elmgate.UUCP> Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 67 In article <1238@elmgate.UUCP> rg@aurora.UUCP writes: > > [blah blah in deep blah no support blah blah Atari Corp. hates > Americans blah blah didn't make no money blah blah HAD IT! blah blah > blah don't get no respect blah blah ...] [Was this supposed to be an early April Fool's post, or what?!] >-- >Jeff Gortatowsky-Eastman Kodak Company .....sun!sunrock!kodak!elmgate!jdg >(716)-726-0084 >Eastman Kodak makes film not comments. Therefore these comments are mine >not theirs. In light of the recent interest in posting a monthly "Intro. to Comp.sys.atari.st", I suggest that we also post the following on a monthly basis, under the title "GENERIC COMP.SYS.ATARI.ST WHINE". (This is copped from a message sent to me recently by one "mathew" . It's remarkably similar in style and content to Jeff's post, but I think it's preferable for monthly posting, since it covers a few more bases. For the sake of thoroughness we should probably add a few whines concerning Atari's financial health. Oh yes, and if any other developers or ex-developers have more personal testimonials concerning how little money their products have made, that would be helpful too; a little something for everyone. Just think how much needless typing and banging on the 'n' key and editing of kill files we could save, not to mention wasted bandwidth, if we could all just get it off our chest once a month in the form of a Generic Whine post!! Here's a start:) "I've not had time to wade through comp.sys.atari.st recently... I get fed up with all the people moaning - they go on and on about how Sam Tramiel should be running the country and how Atari don't make good enough manuals and they don't give their dealers proper support and why isn't the blitter available yet and they ask why can't I get TOS 1.4 from my dealer and then wonder why nobody answers and isn't it terrible that they don't advertise in magazines enough and complaining about the keyboard "it's so tacky..." and if the Europeans can buy an STe why can't they I mean it's not as if there were any difficulties in getting them to Canada, not that I want to buy one of course I just want to see one so that I can complain that Super ZapNarg III doesn't run on it and anyway the blitter's no good because it doesn't have a draw-tartan-circle routine like the Amiga does and they told me I'd be able to upgrade my ST with a Cray emulator for two dollars on a plug-in card and the Mega ST 2 has been discontinued so now I'll have to throw it away and buy a new 2MB ST in a different box and of course the TT/P is vapourware I mean okay so people have seen it working in England so what they're probably lying to us just to get us to buy Atari gear and did you see the new Nintendo GameBoy cartridge nowhere near as good as the Lynx but of course you can't buy them because Atari messed up the distribution like they did with the ST and I'm going to have to go to Europe to get a mono monitor and stop off at a pub for a pint of Watneys Red Barrel and (continued in Monty Python's "Travel Agent" sketch)..." That pretty much sums up the state of the art in c.s.a.s. whining, I think. Suggested revisions? BBB -- Bob Bright Dept. of Philosophy University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Man R3T 2N2 (204) 474-9680