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From: GUIDO@FSU.BITNET (---------the sacred personified---------)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: why, why, why
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Date: 2 Nov 88 04:34:45 GMT
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ok, this will most likely be either ignored or start a flame to end all
flames, but explain to me why I can go into a software store and count
the number of IIgs specific titles on hands and toes(excluding educational
software which ceased being usefull after I left high-school)  and yet,
my roommate who has an atari ST has racks upon racks of some of the best
software I have ever seen.  my meager library is contains nothing I could
ever 'show off' or for that matter, even be interested in...srure, I have
plenty of thinking games and downloaded stuff, but the best movement
oreinted software I have is Thexder.  I am disgusted, I bought this
machine because my II+ finally died and I was assured that pounds of
new software would come out for it 'this christmas' and so far I have been
waiting for about a year. (note: 'this christmas refers to xmas 87)
I have not learned enough about 65816 programming to do my own yet, and
TML pascal is starting to be an option, but I have no idea where to start.
I bought this machine becuase of it's amazing graphics and superb sound
capabilities, but so far, it seems to me that I should have bought an
ST.  There are very few things that I can do on my GS that cannot be done
on an ST.  the reverse is not true at all.  I am sure, of course, that much
of the problem lies in the slow(is 2.5mhz slow?) chip speed, but so what.
I saw some pretty amazing stuff on the old II+ before it entered the
silicon graveyard...stuff that was not as graphically good, but the ideas
could have been expanded to the GS and made even better...seems to me that
all the good software programmers have gone to other avenues.  I guess now
I can have fun figuring out GS/OS for a while and then...who knows what
other potentially boring bit of system software will come out.  It seems
to me that the developers spend more time writing system stuff for the
third-party developers to use than they do explaining to the common user
how to use it...case in point, try reading Apple IIgs toolbox references
volumes I and II and see if they make any sense to you...I don't have a
comp/sci degree yet but I assume that one day when I do I will be able
to comprehend much of what is contained in these massive volumes....till
then, I get to program text-based applications etc. in TML pascal.(yet
another company who is into cryptic manuals)

zaphodian Beeblebrox
"Intelligence is not a prerequisite for life"