Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!tcapener
From: tcapener@watserv1.waterloo.edu (CAPENER TD - ENGLISH )
Subject: Re: Authoring Systems for Amiga
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.160215.3027@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1991Jun24.004403.13909@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <17321@chopin.udel.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 16:02:15 GMT
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In article <17321@chopin.udel.edu>, don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes:
> In article <1991Jun26.011946.216@watserv1.waterloo.edu> tcapener@watserv1.waterloo.edu (CAPENER TD - ENGLISH ) writes:
> >CanDo
> >     (IMHO) potentially very powerful but has too many bugs to be reliable in
> >     serious applications (v. 1.2--I've been waiting for v. 1.5 for months now)
> 
> 	 Have you sent in the form that came with 1.2 to get your upgrade?  I sent
> mine in about 2 months ago and had 1.5 within  two weeks!
> 	 What bugs?  I never used 1.2 too extensively, but I never noticed any major
> bugs in it... certainly it has limitations in certain areas; everything does;
> but I've found it (esp. v 1.5) to be very powerful (although I'm not really
> doing multimedia work with it... creating utilities, mostly).
> 
> -- 
>   Gibberish   May the        Publications Editor, AmigaNetwork 
>   is spoken   fork() be      Amiga Student On-Campus Consultant, U of D
>     here.     with you.      DISCLAIMER:  It's all YOUR fault.

I sent in my money for CanDo 1.5 before Christmas and haven't yet received
my copy.  I call Innovatronics about once a month to see what's going on
and have followed the 1.5 progress from debugging to having the manuals printed
to waiting patiently in line for my copy.

I get the impression no one used 1.2 extensively.  I get about half-an-hour
of work from the program before it gurus.  It seems proportional to the number
of requesters I call up (while using the editors, and so on...)  CanDo is a
nice concept, but I hope v1.5 is a lot more stable.  And they can lose the
clunky interface, too.  It's cute, but after about half-an-hour it just
continually got in my way (and still does).  If they have to have all the
tools on a separate screen, they out to make it a single bit-plane (or at
least make a single bit-plane optional).

Travis Capener