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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Path: sparky!uunet!well!joko
- From: joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn)
- Subject: For John MacLean
- Message-ID: <BuFFBM.4DK@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:28:34 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- To: John MacLean
- Re: DOS 3.3 Launcher
-
- Hi John - I sent you email, but it bounced. Come to think of it, every time
- I've ever sent email to Australia, it's bounced. (in case Michael Levine
- thought I was ignoring him, I wasn't).
-
- In any case, I got the DOS 3.3 Launcher yesterday, and now I have a blister
- on my thumb from playing Robotron until 2AM. It's been a long time since
- I've had such easy access to some of my old DOS 3.3 stuff.
-
- So, I don't know how to say this diplomatically, but I'll try anyway.
-
- I don't think you realize just how valuable your DOS 3.3 Launcher is. If
- you've ever used AmDOS or UniDOS, you realize how difficult it is for
- novices to get DOS 3.3 software onto a hard drive. Your utility makes all of
- the other DOS 3.3 utilities obsolete. No one will ever use them agaan, after
- using yours.
-
- I'd bet the biggest stumbling block that a lot of IIGS owners have is using
- their old software on their new hard drive. Every month at my local user
- group, someone asks me how to install some old DOS 3.3 game on their hard
- drive. I constantly recommend ELS's Menu Master. It's (relatively) easy to
- use, it works, it's menu driven....but, it's not as good as your DOS 3.3
- Launcher.
-
- I'll get right to the point. I think you should try to get DOS 3.3 Launcher
- published by someone like Seven Hills or Quality. In fact, late at night,
- after spending hours and hours messing with my old DOS 3.3 software, I
- myself started to fantacize and dream about starting my own software
- publishing company so that I could sell DOS 3.3 Launcher. Although I'm not a
- business type of person, and don't know anything about marketing or sales, I
- believe that I would be willing to pay you some $$$$ up front, in exchange
- for the rights to publish DOS 3.3 Launcher myself, or to license it, and
- sell it as a $20 product.
-
- Although not everyone is going to want DOS 3.3 software on their hard drive,
- for those that do, a $20 elegant solution (such as you have provided) would
- be just a small price to pay.
-
- Think about it....
-
- Joe Kohn
-