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From: smithwik@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (R. Michael Smithwick -- FSN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shakespeare??
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Date: 15 Sep 90 22:27:48 GMT
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In article <9009132252.AA13551@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca> tjhayko@THUNDER.LAKEHEADU.CA writes:
>Back a couple of years ago, there was a desktop publishing  pack-
>age  called Shakespeare.  Has anyone used it, or does anyone know
>what happened to it?  I'm looking for  a  decent  way  to  output
>Postscript  documents  from  my Amiga so that I can print them on
>our shiny new LaserJet III with Postscript at work.
>
>

Shakespeare was supposed to be the flagship product of Infinity Software, but
bad planning, "dynamic specs", a haphazard development process and impatient
investors killed it. Version 1.0 was essentially still a Beta version and was 
shipped due to investor demands, 1.1 was what a 1.0 product typically is,
quite usable once you learn how to work around the bugs. It was clearly
an example of how not to develop a product.

Shakespeare killed off Infinity, and took most of my Galileo royalties with
it. Although 1.1 I think was a fairly good product, with damned good
color output. The source code was straight from hell, since a total of
12 people hacked away on what was supposed to be a 1 man project.

Don't know anything about the postscript support.



Mike "survivor of the original Shakespeare debugging team" Smithwick



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