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- From: jcsky@winternet.com (Joe Solinsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Digita's Datastore in the Escom Bundle
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 18:37:14 GMT
- Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
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- I really hate to slam any company who is writing software for Amigas, and
- I do support Digita a great deal, and am happy with the word processor
- they shipped with the Amiga (so far), but I have a few complaints.
- Actually, I have a lot of complaints. To be specific, DataStore's errors,
- critical bugs, and cosmetic bugs (what made you think anyone would really
- want to use Topaz for data entry, when you can configure every other font
- on the application?) hindered the use of an otherwise creative software
- package to the point that I have given up on it (version 1.1), and have
- removed it from my hard drive.
- Now, before anyone says 'your fault, Joe' I'm running it on
- a vanilla Escom 4000T (no modifications), specifically NTSC (and I used
- degrader to run it in Pal, and this didn't fix anything except a cosmetic
- bug with the tools down the left side of the screen). In fact, so are a lot
- of new Amiga owners now. See, they shipped this with my new Amiga. Now,
- I've had an Amiga in my life since 1987, almost 9 years, so I knew that this
- wasn't Amiga software in general. But what if I was a different Joe? The
- kind that bought an Amiga for the first time? I might be really disappointed
- with Amigas at that point (except for the fact that I probably would still
- be really nuts over Photogenics and overlook the data entry software, unless
- I was only using my Amiga for Business stuff, which is not entirely true).
- So, Digita, you've shipped a program with a new machine that has
- a very long bug list (I'll compile it if you ask me to). How do you plead?
- Did you even test it first? If you did, I'd like to talk to that division
- of your company. My skills in breaking things would be useful to them.
- Please take this criticism seriously but also constructively.
-
- -Joe Solinsky
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