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From: aaalexis@sactoh0.UUCP (Andrew A. Alexis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ultracard Annonymous, for people sick of betaware!
Summary: Yup. Garbage.
Message-ID: <2233@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 89 18:03:12 GMT
References: <985@madnix.UUCP> <871@thor.wright.EDU>
Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA
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In article <871@thor.wright.EDU>, amercer@thor.wright.edu (Art Mercer) writes:
> From article <985@madnix.UUCP>, by robert@madnix.UUCP (Robert Moldenhauer):
> >> I am tired of programs that are in reality betaware being passed off as a finished
> >> Product.  UltraCard gurus all the time, has a miserable instruction manual and
> >> is slower than Dan Quayle.  The developers disk they promised to ship in July
> >> still isn't here and I am thoroughly pissed off at Jay Minor for letting his
> >> name be associated with this junkware.  My advice, save your US$ 50 and wait 
> >> for CanDo.
> 
> Right on Robert!  In fact, I have UltraCard and a letter packaged and ready
> to send back.  I have taken a zero tolerance stand with this kind of trash.
 I spent a couple of wasted evenings trying in vain to generate a
simple stack, consisting of a button that flips from one card to
another.  GURU city!  This is part of the reason why the thousands
of stacks promised in what little documentation is available have
never appeared: no one can keep the program from crashing for long
enough to save the file!  I find the developer's pleas on other
networks(CI$,etc) that he is just a small developer unconvincing.
Part of developing a program is doing it right-debugging it first,
hiring an artist to provide some decent artwork, hiring someone to
write a manual.  Ironically, my first exposure to ultracard was at
the amiga fair in San Francisco last February.  The developer was
demonstrating it for passers by, and even he couldn't keep it from
crashing!


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   Andy Alexis        UUCP:ames!pacbell!sactoh0!aaalexis 
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