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- On May 24, 9:57pm, Martin Kift wrote:
- > Subject: Re: Blitz manuals
- > Oh oh, arguement time 8)
-
- > Calling the User Manual crap is an understatement of the highest
- > order. It wastes pages on crappy listing of workbench programs, and
- > then skips over all the interesting stuff, graphics/scrolling etc. I
- > have wasted days and days on problems that must have been known by
- > the developers, but they didn't write any bloody descriptions down!
- > Makes my bloody boil.
-
- I haven't been using Blitz that long, but just in dipping into
- the manuals I have found two errors that are more than just typos -
- they are completely wrong! (I'm sure everyone knows about the random
- number generator not generating numbers in the correct range and the
- error in how to define a pointer type). This isn't an old user manual
- either - its got BUMs 1 -5 in the back, so surely they could have
- corrected some of the errors in the text.
-
- It makes me wonder if Acid are entirely serious about this.
-
- > If they think that the user manual is going to teach novices, then
- > they are sorely mistaken.
-
- I've given up on the manual in favour of the `Nigel Hughes'
- option - okay he winges a bit about me being stupid and `its in the
- manual' but he (usually) gets it right!
-
- Dunno how he knows though .....
-
- Mike.
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