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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SuperPaint upgrade to UltraPaint -- questions
Summary: SuperPaint 2.0 upgrade
Keywords: SuperPaint Silicon Beach UltraPaint Deneba
Message-ID: <1345@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 8 Jan 90 22:57:26 GMT
References: <13638@fluke.COM> <3896@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <3896@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ins_apw@jhunix.UUCP (Philip Wong) writes:
>I went for the offer.  I called them up and they said that they also take SP 1.0 too--they meant to say any version of SP.  I never upgraded my SP so for 50, I can get a better program than 2.0 (what is the upgrade price to 2.0 anyway?).
>
>ins_apw@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU

Yes, you certainly can get a better deal!  I spent the $53 to upgrade my SP1.0
to 2.0a, and lo and behold, it doesn't work on a Mac IIx if 32-bit QuickDraw
is active!!!  (Neither does 1.0, actually, but I upgraded machine and program
simultaneously...

***FLAME ON***

I think that Silicon Beach did a really shoddy job on 2.0.  First:  how can
they possibly have let as big a technical screw-up as their infamous draw-
layer scaling-on-save problem get through testing?  Second:  how can they not
admit that it was a bug?  Third:  If there was no bug, how come 2.0a doesn't
do the scaling (supposedly.  I don't use it, since it doesn't work with 32-bit
QD.)

I'm going to ask for my money back and go for UltraPaint.  Can't get any worse.

***FLAME OFF***

'later,
--Mike

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