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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple //GS, words from their world
Summary: Couple of observations...
Message-ID: <10907@well.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 89 07:14:17 GMT
References: <3584@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Quote: "Could you please continue the petty bickering?"  -- Data

In article <3584@sugar.hackercorp.com> karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>...AppleWorks GS.  I have played with it but briefly, and was impressed with 
>(1) its load time (2) its sluggishness.  [ ... ]

	This appears to be characteristic of all GS programs I've played
with.  Instant Music for the GS is truly unbelieveable.  When you go to pull
down a menu, you can actually *see* the rectangle being filled in, followed
by the menu items getting drawn one by one.

	To its credit, the machine runs old ][ software at a comfortable,
even fast, pace.

>Incindentally, the companies killing the machine from the software support
>standpoint are as follows [ ... ]:
>Electronic Arts

	Trip Hawkins needs help.

>The problem with David's statement is that GS/OS occasionally does 
>					    ^^^^^
	How do those 'into' the GS pronounce this?  Geez-OS?

>...and as a game machine, the thing is a poor man's Amiga.

	Define 'poor'.

>What gives?  These are major developers, not yahoos.  [ ... ]
>they won't run with GS/OS.  [ ... ]
>Activision's Music Studio 2.0 will simply crash [ ... ]
>Well written Apple //GS software should [ blah blah blah... ]

	Do these laments sound familiar?  I guess we're not alone, and the
Broken Software Syndrome is probably more attributable to software companies
who have their collective heads wedged than a conspiracy theory.  After all,
who would deliberately write broken software for an Apple product (besides
us, I mean :-) )?

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