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From: hbo@ucsbcsl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DMCS "quiet" upgrade ... sleazy business practices
Message-ID: <484@ucsbcsl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-May-87 10:46:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  5 10:46:21 1987
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   Doug Merritt lists a few bugs in DMCS, I'd like to add my list.
 
   1:  If you load too many instruments, 10 or so, the sounds menu crashes. 
      The rendering of the menu goes glitched, and the lower reaches drop off
      the bottom of the screen, becoming inaccessable. The last item in the 
      sounds menu is the "remove instrument" option, so the only way to recover
      from this bug is to reboot! 
 
   2: MIDI input is badly broken. After an indeterminate number of notes 
     (usually less than three) it is time to talk to the guru.

   3: On my 512K machine, the measures menu takes a vacation when the MIDI
     drivers are loaded along with a score and instruments. This is due to
     lack of memory, since it doesn't happen on my friends 2.5 meg machine.

   
   I have written to EA twice, and called four times. The last phone
conversation took place yesterday (4 May) and resulted in a promise of an
upgrade within 10 days. I am not holding my breath, since I have been
repeatedly lied to by them in this regard.
 
  My overall impression of DMCS is that it is a bloated, top heavy and buggy
mess. It is obviously written entirely in C, since it doesn't fit into 512K
of RAM. No wonder the picture of the authors in the manual shows them wearing
dark glasses: they don't want to risk identification! (.5 :-))


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