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From: davids@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (Dave Schreiber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Help! I need Imagine.pic!
Keywords: Imagine picture stupid
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Date: 13 Dec 90 19:28:06 GMT
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In article <90347.104727DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu> DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu (Doug Bischoff) writes:

>     Okay, the long wait was over.  I ripped open the beautiful package, instal
>led IMAGINE on my hard drive, and ran the bastard.
>     It hopped into the first screen with the title bar, and then right back to
>the Workbench.  I was, to say the lease, miffed.
>     So I called the company.  They said that I needed the file "Imagine.pic"
>and that the one on my distribution disk was probably trashed.  So what does
>this mean?  Simple.

This is my one gripe with Imagine:  the startup screen HAS to be present
in order to run the program.  Without it, the program will load without
a problem, but will abort once it realizes the picture isn't there.

My first reaction to this was "Dumb, dumb, DUMB!"  Then I called Impulse
and talked to a customer support person.  When I asked about making the
picture display optional, the person said (a pretty close quote):
 "We're going to leave it as it is.  We want it to act like that and
  may eventually hardwire [??] it in and use it as a form of copy
  protection [!!!!!!!!!!!!]"

Needless to say, I am not amused.

>| -Doug  Bischoff- |    *** ***    ====--\         | "It's so neat to |
>\---- DEB110@PSUVM.PSU.EDU  D.BISCHOFF on GEnie  THIRDMAN on PAN -----/



-- 
Dave Schreiber                                    davids@slugmail.ucsc.edu 
                                or (but not both) davids@ucscb.ucsc.edu
"It was fun learning about logic, but I don't see where or when I will ever
use it again."