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- From: Steven_Hurdle@amusers.UUCP (Steven Hurdle)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
- Subject: Re: CDTV & No Manuals Gripe
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- Message-ID: <Steven_Hurdle.00ur@amusers.UUCP>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 03:27:40 PST
- Organization: AmUsers - The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC
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- In a message dated Sun 4 Jan 93 2:44, King@snoc01.enet.dec.com (randall K
- wrote:
-
- KK> OK. I'll be an honest maverick. Although I love the CDTV for its PD
- KK> Fish
- KK> via PARNET, the lack of documentation is a turnoff for normal people.
-
- KK> Simcity for example. We didnt have the original on floppy, so the ROM
- KK> is
- KK> all we had. My daughter sat down excited to get into it, turned it
- KK> on,
- KK> and wanted to know some reasonable things like. Whats the objective?
- KK> What kind of strategies are there? All she got on the help screens
- KK> was
- KK> hieroglyphic pictures and points on various photographs. She
- KK> wandered
- KK> around cities pointlessly for a while, and has abandoned it since.
- KK> Strike 1.
-
- You obviously aren't paying attention at all. Whip-out the case that Sim
- City came in. Open it up. What looks like just an inner-sheet on the
- front of the case to tell you the title of the game is actually a rather
- well-done booklet. Had your daughter read this I suspect she'd get a
- pretty good idea of what her goals should be. Most CDTV discs I have have
- manuals inside the cases like this.
-
- KK> Then my good lady wanted to random play an audio CD. Wheres the
- KK> instructions?
- KK> On the welcome disk. 10 minutes later she has waded through all the
- KK> American
- KK> voices to find something that on our real CD is the push of a button.
- KK> She's not going back and doing anything else fancy again.
- KK> Strike 2.
-
- I guess this is valid. I hadn't thought that this would be a problem. It
- all seemed pretty self-explanatory to me and I think Commodore designed
- those screens quite well. I never had to consult the welcome disc to
- figure it out. If nothing else, a little bit of experimentation would have
- easily shown what it all does.
-
- I also think Grollier's Electronic Encyclopaedia was intuitively designed
- and I've never had to consult the help function.
-
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