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From: BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ultracard Annonymous, for people sick of betaware!
Message-ID: <3673@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Date: 15 Dec 89 16:26:12 GMT
References: <985@madnix.UUCP> <871@thor.wright.EDU> <2233@sactoh0.UUCP>
Organization: Walter & Eliza Hall Institute
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In article <2233@sactoh0.UUCP>, aaalexis@sactoh0.UUCP (Andrew A. Alexis) writes:
> 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!
> 
> 
> -- 
>    Andy Alexis        UUCP:ames!pacbell!sactoh0!aaalexis 
>  ======================================================= 
>   "Toto kansasoseum non est cognito" -- Farley 
>  =======================================================  

My stack was even easier. All I tried to do was load a backgroung iff file!!
It's a good thing I've got a robust hard disk, or I could have lost a lot of
data. UltraCARD is absolute shit. I've sent it back.
Regards Alan