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From: hatcher@INGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Doug Merritt)
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Subject: Re: DMCS "quiet" upgrade ... sleazy business practices
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Date: Sat, 2-May-87 02:54:30 EDT
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In article <11630@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> trudel@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Jonathan D.) writes:
>Pardon the ignorance, but what was/is so wrong with the current
>version [of DMCS], aside from how slow it is in loading files?

Here are my notes from the first day that I bought it:
	- severe noise sometimes when hitting keys on screen with mouse
	- this noise sometimes gets stuck loudly on semipermenantly
	- vertical scroll of bars with mouse is "elastic" -- i.e. it
	  fights small changes in position, even though it redraws the
	  bar, which is really confusing.
	- no volume control (or if there is one, it says something that
	  I never found it!)

Less critical issues:
	- documention shows Mac screens and uses Mac terminology (i.e.
	  it was quickly hacked for the Amiga, and carelessness with
	  the documentation adds insult to injury for me, and could
	  easily mislead someone who didn't know the Amiga well)
	- I consider it a bug that there is no waveform/instrument editor,
	  although this is arguable. But it was demo'd at the user group
	  meeting *with* such an editor, so although I may simply have
	  missed the comments about not releasing it, all I can say is
	  "why not???"

There are lots of other little things that annoy me about it, but I
haven't bothered to take notes about them. Nor do I use this program
much...you would have to be either very forgiving and very uncritical,
or else very determined. Doubtless after enough use it wouldn't seem
so bad, but I don't like the learning curve! I'd prefer to spend my
efforts on something that was well done to start with!

Doug Merritt   ucbvax!ingres!hatcher