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- Can everyone please reply to this by email, it's important...
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- Acid Software have nearly sold all of their current stock which was a
- print run of 2500 English reference manuals, use guides and boxes.
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- I would like to release a new version of Blitz2 which would be based
- around an A4 ringbinder.
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- negative aspects to this approach:
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- piracy: unclip ringbinder and dump manual in photocopier and hit copy...
- weight: probably weigh over 2kg, current box is about 1.5
- cost: a little more expensive unless I can source binders in Asia
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- positive aspects:
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- expandable: as libraries are added and updated so can your manual
- tidy: have everything in one place at one time (no bums everywhere)
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- OK, Acid now have to decide weather to invest time and money reorganising
- the docs and tutorials in a more managable way and spend a shitload of
- money on printing (which we don't have cos 2 distributors in UK owe us
- most of this years SkidMarks earnings) or...
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- Turn Blitz2 into a PD product, publish all docs electronically and save a
- shit load of trees and other of our planet's resources. We could try and
- publish non PD but I think the piracy issue would be completely stupid in
- this case.
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- The other thing Acid needs to take into consideration is the importance
- of publishing stuff developed by Blitz Users, offering the best service
- in this department and taking the financial resources out of Blitz stock
- might also be a viable argument.
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- OK voting time:
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- keep publishing bums, leave new docs until blitz3 which should have
- linker and modern '90's editor instead of 'baby' ted, use money to employ
- programmers to get blitz3 out early 94
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- republish docs in ringbinder so Blitz2 is on the shelves for XMas and
- upgrade current users using profit for the above
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- put Blitz2 into pd, publish all docs on disk, support users by publishing
- their software and concentrate on supporting Amiga by py publishing lots
- of choice software
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- Anyway, apologies for thinking aloud, feedback from you users would be
- appreciated,
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- Simon
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