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- Cumana Ltd, 'Greytops',
- Pines Trading Estate, The Lane,
- Broad Street, Chilton,
- GUILDFORD Didcot,
- Surrey GU3 3BH Oxon OX11 0SE
- 2 November 1993
-
- Dear Sir,
- Space Encyclopedia software
- At the recent 'Acorn World' exhibition, I bought a CD-ROM from your
- stand, the signature on the receipt looks like P.Mc...... (Mostly illegible).
-
- Now that I have tried to run it for myself I find that although there
- are some nice images, the software which drives them is very badly written,
- and when I do illegal things the whole computer hangs, and need a 'Reset' to
- revive it. The instructions on how to use the product are poor, and have not
- been spell checked, without really looking for errors in the !help file I
- found the following, "with you computer", "repaly", "dilogue","truning the
- pages","interective help".
-
- I was using an A540 with 12Mbytes of memory running RISC OS3.1, and the
- Acorn Multimedia expansion unit. I normally use Mode 27, Mode 15 seemed to
- be slightly less fragile. The errors are seldom repeatable, sometimes a
- 'hang' occurs, at other times doing exactly the same sequence of operations
- it runs without trouble. Here is one set of operations I did. click on
- 'Search', ask for 'mars', 'viewlist', then click on the line Viking1 (6).
- This causes some CD-Rom activity, but then the whole computer 'hangs'
-
- Another problem is that after clicking on !Space and getting the main
- window, it is not possible to hold down SHIFT and click on !Space again, in
- an attempt to be able to see the instructions at the same time as the
- running application. The pointer changes to an 'hourglass' icon and again
- the computer 'hangs'.
-
- I am very disappointed, I had thought 'Cumana' were a reputable company,
- whose products were reliable. This one looks as if it needs several more
- weeks of testing before it is in a fit state to be distributed.
-
- Please can you tell your software supplier about these problems and ask
- how I can get a corrected version of the software when it it ready.
-
- I am an Acorn Registered Developer and am hoping to develop applications
- for teaching materials science using CD-ROM.
-
- Yours faithfully,
-
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-
-
- K.M.Crennell