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From: nick@ccicpg.UUCP (Nick Crossley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Software for the Mac -- recommendations wanted.
Message-ID: <12804@ccicpg.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 88 00:42:04 GMT
References: <953@pbhyc.UUCP> <42125@sun.uucp> <2930@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: nick@ccicpg.UUCP (Nick Crossley)
Organization: CCI CPG, Irvine CA
Lines: 38
Keywords: presentation packages,utilities,MPW
Summary: Further thoughts on presentation packages and utilities

In article <2930@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>In article <42125@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>On to others: presentation packages. Who cares? This is a market in search
>>of a reason, a great hype with little substance. Powerpoint does some nice
>>things, but how many people REALLY need something that can't be done in
>>their Word Processor? Seriously, now....
>
>Actually, Chuq, there is a *BIG* demand for these things, if several big
>corporations in the Seattle dBUG group are any measure.  These guys just
I agree with Jeff.  I, and my wife, prepare presentations and lecture slides
and handouts frequently.  We tend to use a mixture of MacWrite, MacDraw,
MacPaint, More,... (particularly the last - the bullet charts are designed
specifically for this use, and are excellent).  I haven't yet looked at
PowerPoint, but if it could do with one program everything I can do with all
the others, I would certainly buy it.

>Utilities:  ...
To my mind, all such DA's and Finder replacements are rendered obsolete by
MultiFinder, running your desired application(s), Finder and MPW.  Finder is
there to do any standard stuff with the desktop, etc., and to drag things
to the required positions and sizes, and the MPW shell provides all required
utilities and commands to fiddle with files with power near that of Unix
and a good shell.  It even has built-in help (the Commando facility).  My own
system has Finder, MPW and the Alarm Clock as a start-up set. (So I don't need
a clock in the menu bar; I have found such utilities have caused crashes).

>I could mention games, but it sounds like you're talking about serious
>software... (some of the best stuff is PD and shareware -- nothing makes my
>pulse pound like Air Traffic Controller).
I like Wizardry.  I had this on my old Apple ][+, and when I bought a Mac,
this was one of the first games I bought.  I still enjoy it.  Dark Castle
is also good.

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