Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!widener!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future) Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 07:10:57 GMT References: <96@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun23.145847.16816@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <111@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun24.162803.5664@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun25.060849.1731@neon.Stanford.EDU> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 23 In article <1991Jun25.060849.1731@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes: >rjc@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: > >> A good example of this is Apple's bubble-help system. What if Apple >>decided to somehow make bubble-help work on Apps that didn't support it >>(I have no idea how they would do this, perhaps they would review the >>manual information for every application ever written on the Mac >>and include it on the system 7 disk) Instead of this god-awful kludge, >>System 7 Apps have to upgrade to use this ability. > > Or, the local power user can add help balloons to old applications >without having to touch the application code, since help balloons >are simply resources. > This is the FIRST feature I turned off when I got system 7. It is so SLOOWWWW. And Apple wasted ROM space on it hahahaha. -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************