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- From: sales@mt-inc.com (MicroTech Sales)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: NewTek's idea of Toaster Support
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 16:18:15 GMT
- Organization: MCSNet Internet Services
- Message-ID: <2224.6641T599T1001@mt-inc.com>
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- On 07-Mar-96 19:19:33, Joe Solinsky (jcsky@winternet.com) posted:
-
- > I really hate to share my story so quickly and fiercely, but I feel I
- > should warn anyone about to buy a Toaster 4K: if you don't have a high
- > density floppy drive, you are royally screwed. And NewTek won't ship a
- > diskette set out to you, in DD form. And since there are a small small
- > number of these secretive Chinon drives, the world is a dark place.
- > So, if you get a Toaster, be warned that installation of the software
- > will be a new form of headache for you.
- > And may I quote Ryan/Spike on management's attitude about the Amiga:
- > "We are more interested in supporting our other products, and not the
- > Amiga."
-
- > Does anyone care to tell them they don't have any other products?
- > I mean sure, there's lightwave, but that's software, and software
- > support is easier, and less often. The fact of the matter is they don't
- > care. At least the tech was a nice person. Of course, the fact that
- > it's still 3.5 software they are shipping also irritates me. I sure
- > hope it doesn't break. Chances are that NewTek wouldn't fix it if it
- > did.
- > -Joe Solinsky
- > PS: my dealer is solving this problem for me. I consider myself lucky.
-
- Toaster 4.1 software will ship on CD-ROM only, this will 'fix' this
- problem. The diskette problem is that they used a proprietary copy
- protection scheme on the 45 diskettes that 3.5 shipped with, and it is not
- easily changed. Since 4.1 is to be released within just a few weeks, they
- probably figured it would not be worth the expense to re-do all those 3.5
- diskette versions, at 45 disks per system.
-
- Regards,
- John Crookshank
-
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