From: | Matt Sealey |
Date: | 22 Jun 2001 at 14:05:22 |
Subject: | Re: Whinge,whinge!!!! |
Hello Alan
On 22-Jun-01, you wrote:
> hi,
>
>>> A year's updates is included, which will take users from pre-release to
>>> full release. The Party Pack DE is very much a pre-release. It does
>>> include the Koan software.
>>
>> Right.. okay.. so if I handed out beta software and made you pay for it,
>> you'd be pleased as long as I promised to mail you updates to it?
>
> umm, thats what Vapor have done. I bought V3...and have yet to have the
> final product ;-)
3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 were final products. Granted, they weren't stable, but
then they didn't have me on board as a full-time committed beta tester
back then.
:)
>> No, sorry Don, if I'm going to buy something it'd better be of release
>> quality - that is, fully featured and of a modicum of stability.
>
> hmm, NOONE would have bought Voyager if that were the case ;-)
Voyager is not exactly essential to the development for the Amiga
platform is it? It's not the sole focus of anyone's efforts.
You could have bought IBrowse or AWeb if you wanted a less-developed,
more stable alternative. Where's the alternative that Amiga offers? Can
I buy Tao's SDK, the KOAN audio kit, and some other stuff instead of
Amiga's?
And nowhere is it stated that Voyager is somehow the ONLY way
to browse the internet - it is merely another tool implementing
standards. And best of all: it doesn't cost $100.
>> *AUDIO SUPPORT*. Wow.. audio support for.. a Soundblaster card
>> that costs another $100. And what.. some new GUI buttons? It's
>
> $100? SB512 is less than $30. SB1024 is less than $60
> (or do you only shop at PC World? ;-) )
Worse, I'd have to shop at Eyetech in order to claim some kind of
support for it, in which case it would be $100.
As for your $60 price: Did you forget to buy speakers and cables,
too, Alan? That's $10 at least added to the price, $50 if you want
a seperate subwoofer, $75 if you want a cheap 5.1 solution.
You didn't expect to have audio support with no speakers, did you?
Essentially to develop for the Amiga system we were told we'd
need a PC running Linux (or Windows) and a copy of the SDK.
Now we need an A1200 or A4000, an Eyetech AmigaOne, PPC,
RAM, three seperate PCI cards and an AGP card (sound, network
and scsi, and your matrox, the middle being the cheapest but
still really required for full functionality) of specific brands,
peripherals to match, *and* an OS that is supposedly worth
$100 *and* an SDK that we'd need to develop for the *next*
stage of the Amiga Roadmap (and, y'know? We've almost just
missed the party pack deal, so add $100 to the entire price)
I somehow don't understand what YOUR big deal is with $40 on
a soundcard when it's gonna cost more than that to get your
full system up and running.
Thanks
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