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From: dcr3567@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.C. Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ultracard Problems
Message-ID: <2096@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 90 18:13:29 GMT
References: <1672@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: dcr3567@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.C. Richardson )
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In article <1672@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> brandonl@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM (Brandonius) writes:
>
>In addition to poor documentation, I have three problems:
>
[Bad Stuff About UltraCard Deleted.. too bad it can't be done to the
program that easily]
>I am going to see if I can return it, but I am so disappointed with this
>supposedly "promising" product, that I will not consider it again.  It
>is typical of too much Amiga software with erratic, poor standards.
>
>This is another advantage of the Mac world ...S/W standards are higher.
                 ^^^^^^^^^        ^^^              ^^^^^^^^^
>No, I don't own one.  But it seems to me that you can have all the potential
>power in the world, but if you can't use it well, it's effectively useless.
>(or greatly diminished)
>
>This is not the first program of such poor quality that I have encountered.
>Just another one, and another,...
>
>
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>        |	 BRANDON G. LOVESTED            
>    \   |   /	 Software Entomologist       
>      \ | /	 Tektronix, Inc. 	    
> --- - (*) - --- brandonl@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM 
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I just encountered these advantages just last night.  I'm working on my
Formal lab report for physics.  I simple 15-20 page report, with a few
graphs, and a pain in the ass.. so I decide how I'm going to start it.
   I have A-Max, 3 drives and 3 megs, with MicroSoft Works & Cricket
Graph.  I can make graphs and clip them directly to Works, where they
will be integrated with the data (also clipped from Cricket Graph).  Add
to this some nice fonts, WYSIWYkindaG, and decent Speed (I **DESPISE**
Multifinder, but it IS getting the job done, and isn't too complicated!)
   I have the Amiga 2000, 3 megs, 40 meg HD, 2 floppies, & Modem.  I
have WordPerfect, which is fine for the text, but what about the
graphs??? (They would have to be semi-structured graphs to be usable,
not just IFF Pics, which tend to get warped).  I couldn't find a
solution (Use Dpaint? Yeah right... Use text chars.. sure, might as well
be doing it by hand..)

   Oh well.. guess that's why I bought A-Max in the first place (And am
glad I won't have a need for it [hopefully] after this weekend... we got
some new software on the Vax that should do some of these things)

Daniel Richardson
Mechanical Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology