Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!BobR
From: BobR@cup.portal.com (Bob BobR Retelle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Update:  Graphic Interfaces for 8-bits
Message-ID: <11057@cup.portal.com>
Date: 8 Nov 88 06:33:01 GMT
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Nick DiMasi mentions that Matt Ratcliff reported in Conference on Delphi
that he'd tried Diamond (one of the two imminent "GEM-lookalikes" for
the Atari 8-bit systems), and found it somewhat lacking.

Tonight I had my first opportunity to work with Diamond somewhat briefly,
and I too found some drawbacks.  Just for contrast, we also booted up
the "pre-release" version of GOE we have  ( *NOT* the "demo" version that
had been circulated some time ago).

A full review of both systems will be forthcoming at a later date, but
my initial impressions are that both systems have many strong points, and
some weaknesses...   I would  *love*  to see a GEM-like system that took
the best of *both* Diamond *and* GOE...

BobR