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From: tlimonce@drunivac.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why the Amiga is hard to sell
Message-ID: <27847.25928a72@drunivac.uucp>
Date: 22 Dec 89 20:11:30 GMT
References: <6654@nigel.udel.EDU> <5384@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
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In article <5384@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>, don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd) writes: 
> 	On the subject of Magazines, has anyone read one called A/X?  I've
> seen it around occasionally for a while now, but up until a few days ago
> never bought one (and sorry I finally did).  75% of the magazine is written
> by a guy named Jay Gross, who has absolutely nothing good to say about 

I was going to mention this magazine a while back when I bought my 
first (and last) issue.  I think this guy wants to put himself out of 
business by bad-mouthing the Amiga until C-A goes under :-)

He publishes rumors that we heard on Usenet three months earlier.  The 
issue that I have was published around when C-A announced that ARexx 
will a part of AmigaDOS 1.4.  What did his issue say?  It made a big 
stink about how if C-A was smart they'd add ARexx to the 1.4 
distribution but they'd never be smart enough to do that.

I think EVERYONE on the net knew that 1.4 would include ARexx before 
it was "official".  The registered developers MUST have known before 
that because all of a sudden every developer that always seemed to be 
"in the know" had just re-released their major packages with ARexx 
ports.  Don't magazines get at least as good info as registered 
developers?  Oh, I guess you have to Make An Effort.

(On a good day)  I think the guy is a ninny and should be ignored.
(On a bad day)   I think the guy should be politely driven out of 
busniess by C-A's lawyers... or shot.

Lucky for him, today is a "good day" for me. :-)


The other magazine that I've had trouble with is "Compute!'s Amiga 
Resource".  I had one of the first subscriptions to Compute! when it 
was THE 6502 journal and I watched it go down hill.

The last issue that I bought had a side-by-side debate about 1.4.  

Get this:  One person was debating that it should be released ASAP 
because it was needed.  The other person (a real the-C-64-roms-
never-changed-why-can't-I-just-do-what-I-want-on-my-Amiga-style-
programmer) was (get this!) arguing that C-A shouldn't release it 
because it will break some software.

This latter guy's writing indicated that he was a technical 
my-code-breaks-if-you-jump-from-1.2-to-1.3-roms-style programmer
yet he didn't grasp that new roms in 1.4 would be required to get 
great things like autobooting ffs floppies, a greatly enhanced 
workbench, sugar plums, Christmas stockings, toys, etc.

Best of all, neither of them mentioned that there were bugs in the 
ROM that can't be fixed without a rom-change (without a kludge... and 
I don't mean set-patch is a kludge... it isn't).

Oh well, enough mag-bashing for tonight.

Merry Yule!
-Tom
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