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From: micro@imada.ou.dk (Klaus Pedersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: How to intercept TOS vectores
Keywords: XBRA
Message-ID: <1991May24.175604.21137@imada.ou.dk>
Date: 24 May 91 17:56:04 GMT
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uace0@menudo.uh.edu (Michael B. Vederman) writes:
>No one is asking you to leave, but if you are going to make claims about
>software that doesn't work (especially when the company that makes the
>software is on the net AND when you have never complained OR registered
>that company's software directly with the company), then you had better
>substantiate your post!

Now you wait a second, the software is shareware (or it might have been
a demoversion). It is therefor my right to try the software first and if
it don't work - then erase it from my harddisc, right? 
You can't expect that I pay for software I can't use, can you? If you can
then I have some ideas to make big money! 
Whats more, you can't expect that anyone with TOS 1.4 or the least programming
skill will pay money for a formatter! 

>You are once AGAIN making an unsubstatiated claim about our software!

again, correct me if it is wrong, I tried a formatter of yours, I could not
use it, now why should I try any other of your products?
Ok, I did try another(dcdesktop), and it did not work (not everybody have
an english desktop - and as you probaly can see english is not my main 
language, so there might have been a slight chance that that was the case, 
right?).

>DC Desktop DOES work, and we have _many_ satisfied customers!  DC Desktop,
I think it depends on who you are!
I would not be satisfied with software that took chances with undocumented
variables/text/functions.
And I hope for all the people that have bought your software that _you_
stay with Atari for many TOSses.

>however, is _highly_ ROM specific in order to wedge in and supplement the
>OS functions. 

Yes that is the problem when you have spent to many hours with a disassembler
in the area about 0xE0_0000. One can not resist the temptation - right?

> If you have problems running our software.
>1) Why not contact us directly, instead of spreading unsupportable claims?

I did not contact you because when I needed a formatter (PC-comp.) I tryed
out many diffrend ones (yours included), and If I should have mailed to all
the people with formatters that did not work, I would probaly still be mailing
today. And I did find a better alternative (FreeWare with source).

As I said in my previous post, it was not my intension to flame anybody, but
rather to give an example that people could relate to, and I thought that 
people knew your software - right...

This is becomming annoying, I wanted to help newcommers writing better software
and I end up arguing with a long time hacker. 

Klaus, micro@imada.ou.dk

>- mike vederman