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- From: lofaso@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Bernie Lofaso)
- Subject: Re: Rend24 version 1.05 -- has *anyone* gotten this thing to work?
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- Organization: Applied Research Labs, University of Texas at Austin
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:02:37 GMT
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- pooler@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole) writes:
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-
- >This is the third time I've downloaded the Rend24 archive in the hopes of
- >getting it to work at all. This time, I grabbed version 1.05, which is
- >apparently the latest (and according to the documentation, probably the
- >last). As usual, I copied the support files to where they belonged -- i.e.,
- >copied the libraries to my libs: directory.
-
- >I can't make the damned program do anything useful. Supposedly you can use
- >it to view ILBM, GIF, and JPEG. I can't do anything of the sort with
- >Rend24. The cycle gadgets often don't respond to mouse button clicks --
- >they must be clicked on repeatedly. No error messages ever occur to tell
- >me what (if anything) I'm doing wrong. There are no status readouts to tell
- >me if the program is doing anything whatsoever except sitting there.
- >Yes, I know that Rend24 is intended for the conversion of a series of images
- >into an animation. But the author makes claims which, as far as I can tell,
- >are entirely false -- claims that Rend24 can view and/or convert single
- >frames.
-
- >How can someone release a program as shareware without doing the basic
- >tests to insure that it runs on at least a good subset of the Amiga
- >computers. I can't believe that AmigaWorld's shareware reviewer gave this
- >program rave reviews. Makes me wonder whether they do anything except read
- >the docs.
-
- >If the author of Rend24 is stopping development for lack of shareware support
- >(which seems to be the case), perhaps the reason why people are not
- >registering is because the program fails on many platforms. I know I'm not
- >the only person with this complaint.
-
- O.K. Now that you've let off enough steam to boil a drum of crawfish, maybe
- you'd like to give at least the slightest bit of information about your
- set-up so you can get some constructive feedback about the problem. Droning
- on and on about how bad you think the program is isn't going to fix the
- problem much. Since I've only tried Rend24 on my A4000, I can only make
- statements for it, but it has worked flawlessly and quite well, and I have
- gone through a number of its features. Actually, now that I think of it,
- a friend has also run it on his A2000.
-
- Bernie Lofaso
- Applied Research Labs
-