Subject: Imagine 4 everybody! The Campaign - join in!!
Date: Fri, 6 May 94 23:12:37 +0200
From: Anders_Lattermann@p24.anet.bbs.bad.se (Anders Lattermann)
Imagine 4 everybody!
Your chance to make your suggestions in the next release!
Greetings Imagineers!
Imagine 3.0 is shipping and it's time to evaluate it. See whats there and
whats not and to look forward in what we, the users, want in the next
release.
I thoght of a way to do it, and if you read along, you'll find out how your
ideas can be in the next release. No promises though :-)
In a note from Mike Halvorson some time ago. (Mike is the president of
Impulse), regarding the shipping status of Imagine 3.0 for both the Amiga
and the PC platforms he said: (The message below is in an shorted edited
form)
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TO all Imagine users on Planet Earth as well as all outposts where from time
to time it seems some of you live. 8'). (some not all)
As of today, April 29th 1994 all US and Canada order for Imagine PC and
Amiga are on their way to you.
Now the challenge begins: Imagine has had an interesting history and
exciting future. I have said on this forum many times that it is not the
software that makes great users it is great users that make the software, so
I am depending on each of you to dig and find out what we have done.
I realize that there will be those who try and find the mistakes or bugs
first, thats cool, we want to know what we missed and we more importantly
want to make sure we fix the problems as fast as we can.
Some things were left out, but not for long. WE have already begun to start
the next rev of the software. So if you miss something that you felt you
could not live without, hang in there, we know about it and will add these
and more features than you can IMAGINE.
Our success depends on your satisfaction with Imagine, and this is a two way
street. You need to tell us what you want and we need to do our best to
make it happen. However we want things in the code as well. Things that
you never mentioned you wanted or needed. Try out the deformation tools,
they are so full of cool that they deserve several sleepless nights all unto
themselves, I know I have had a few.
In closing this note, I want to als challenge each of you to see the
positive in what you find, we really dont work well with blatant negative
comments. Dont get me wrong, we like a good flaming just as much as the
next guy. But from time to time it gets very personal here on the IML and
we arent much for that kind of backward activity. Impulse is not on some
high mountain in an Ivory Tower. WE are users just like you, we are lucky
that we get to make some of the products that you use, and we appreciate
your support,.
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Ok, Impulse wants us to tell them what we want. Let's do it!
If you have ideas and/or find bugs you like to see implemented/fixed in the
next release, send a message about it to me and I'll put a list together
with everybodys messages and after that, mail it out so everybody can read
it and vote which things you find most important. Yes, I said vote!
Why? Because without some statistics Impulse will have a BIG list and no
clue to what we think are the most important things to fix first. I will
collect the votes. Put everything together and see to that the results comes
out on the nets and of course also reaches Impulse.
Why I'm doing this?
Well, I have the time for the moment and I have acces to Internet, Fidonet
and AmigaNet. So we can reach everybody using Imagine. And also because I
came up with the idea for this thing!
How to do it?
First, I want this so easy as possible (I'm lazy ;-). This means only one
bug report/idea per message. But you can of course send as many messages as
you want.
I want the header in the following format:
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From: (that's your name)
To: Anders Lattermann (Yep, that's me!)
Subject: Imagine 4 everybody!
You can use one of the following addresses:
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FidoNet: 2:201/411.24
AmigaNet: 39:164/100.24
InterNet: Latte@p24.anet.bbs.bad.se
I want the text in the following format:
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In the text I wan't you to write the following as start:
"Imagine 4 everybody! + path."
Where the path tells me where to put your message. Path goes like this:
(Upper/Undercase doesn't matter)
1. What? Idea, NewProduct, BugPC, BugAmiga or Hi ("NewProduct" is for
totally new products you'll like to see from Impulse. "Hi" is for Mikes
request of some positive feedback. Short things like "Best 3D-program i ever
used! / Anders Lattermann" is what I'm thinking of here).
2. Where? (Detail, Stage, Action, Project and so on. We also have Misc for
everything you don't find a good headline for).
3. Finally. The text that describes the matter as short as possible. Try to
keep it under 3-5 lines.
Example for a bug in the Amiga version:
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Imagine 4 everybody!/bugamiga/detail
"Whenever I use the quit command in the meny. My computer explodes."
Example for an idea:
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Imagine 4 everybody!/idea/project
"I would like to have a built in "count the sheeps" game when Imagine
renders."
I think you got the grip of how to do it? If not email me. Speaking of
email, I get my email on disk from sweden where I normally live (I'm in
France to sept 31), so email takes about 1-2 weeks (on occasion with bad
timing more) to go to and from me.
Closing date for suggestions and bugreports are june 31. I will there after
put the complete list together and mail it out. Voting will be done to
august 31. Anyone who could put together a good program or ARexx script that
could automate the counting for me? Would be extremly helpfull.
This finally gives that I can send a list to Impulse and mail it out on the
net just when the gang at Impulse are done with their summer vacations and
comes back to cook the next release of Imagine together. And this time, with
your help, it could be Imagine 4.0 with all the features everybody wants to
see. In other words: Imagine 4 everybody!
/Anders Lattermann
FidoNet: 2:201/411.24 ! PointBreak - Bg-St-Maurice - France
AmigaNet: 39:164/100.24 ! A3000/14/105 + SQ88C & 17xSQ800
InterNet: Latte@p24.anet.bbs.bad.se ! I feel the need, the need 4 speed!
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