Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!jmg From: jmg@cernvax.UUCP (jmg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Megamac C Answer Message-ID: <534@cernvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 02:51:00 EDT Article-I.D.: cernvax.534 Posted: Thu Sep 24 02:51:00 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 10:20:27 EDT References: <8709182225.AA20037@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: jmg@cernvax.UUCP () Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland Lines: 27 In article <8709182225.AA20037@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> DBM%M_ASC%M_MAILNOW@sdr.slb.COM (David Mann) writes: >6. Availability: They expect to go into external Beta test in the next week; >my guess would be 1 to 3 months before general availability. Upgrades >will be available to current owners (via notification in their newsletter) (I >don't completely recall the prices they quoted, but I believe they were all >under $50 for updates; free updates for packages purchased in the last month >or so). The name is being changed with this release to "Laser C". Some comments (being the one who asked whether there was life after Megamax version 1.1). 1. Despite having purchased Megamax, sent off all registration cards etc. I have never received any newsletter. In fact, Megamax have never answered mail sent directly to them! 2. I wanted a version free of all the bugs which I and others have found. I regard that as a moral duty on the part of Megamax, and one which should cost me a minimum (disk postage cost). Instead, I see the usual example of what I call moral dishonesty, whereby I have to pay for a completely new version (which may have new bugs!). This sounds like incitement to produce programs with lots of bugs: each time you fix a few you put in some added functionality so that you can get more money out of the poor sucker who bought the product. Anyway, it is nice to know that Megamax 2.0 (sorry, Laser C) will be available "real soon now".