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Feedback
(Last updated 12/15/93)
This file contains a random selection of comments I received about a
previous CD-ROM, and my response or resolution to those comments. It
is not a complete log of all comments or problem reports received,
just those that seemed interesting or general enough to include, or
that I thought to save for this purpose. Each CD-ROM will have a
completely new "Feedback" file. I.E. the lifetime of these particular
entries is only the next CD-ROM from when they were received or acted
on.
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RE: Icon spacing
A user wrote:
> You asked for comments concerning your first CDROM disk, so that you
> can consider them for later disks. First let me say that I am very
> pleased with the disk. However, one annoyance is that I use a larger
> system font for my title bars, and icon text, and apparently this
> causes the icons in each and every window to not quite fit--the icon
> labels are cut off for the bottom row. This means that I am forever
> adjusting the size of the window whenever I open a drawer, and if
> there is anything that CDROM has a *lot* of, it is drawers! My
> suggestion is that you leave a little extra room at the bottom of the
> windows. I realize that this might be an inconvenience for people
> with only 200 line screens, and in general it is a good idea to make
> windows as small as possible, but maybe you could just give a little
> more room? If you want to set your system fonts so that you see what
> I am seeing, I am using Times 18 for the Screen text, and Times 13 for
> the icon text. Just a thought.
And another user wrote:
> Please make the windows of the drawers a bit larger so people that are
> using a much bigger font could read the names of the lowest icons in this
> window without using the slidebar on the side of the window. I am using
> Helvetica in 11 pt. and I can't read the names of the lowest icons.
And yet another user wrote:
> After playing some time with your october CD-ROM, I'd like to make a
> suggestion. With more and more users having flicker fixers, GFX cards
> or other means for a high resolution display, they are likely to use
> bigger fonts for icons in order to make the names readable. The disk
> and drawer windows of the CD however are measured to look nice with an
> 8 point font (guessed, never tried :)). If you've got a bigger icon
> font (like me), the names of the lower icons cannot be read
> anymore. So after opening the disk/drawer you first have to enlarge
> the window (storing this is _somewhat_ difficult on the CD :)). Could
> you probably leave some more space below the icons?
OK, OK... I get the point. :-)
I'm now using about twice the previous spacing for the CD-ROM
files, and will probably do the same for floppy disks 951-1000.
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RE: Floppy Disk "Contents" files
> Speaking of fish contents, I was surprised that there wasn't a
> comprehensive Contents file containing the contents from disk 1 to the
> present on the October CDROM. I think that this would be a valuable
> addition to futureCDROMs.
I agree. Done. See Useful/Catalogs/*/*.
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RE: PARNET Support
A user wrote:
> Some suggestion: For CD32 use (or CDTV), wouldn't it be nice to have
> icons for IconX files on this disc that allow you to start a ParNet
> or DNet/SerNet connection to another Amiga? Everything (in regards
> of software!) that's needed is already there on your disc, you simply
> would have to put these small scripts with some Mount's and Assign's
> together.
And I responded:
> The first CD-ROM has everything in :s/Startup-Sequence to start parnet,
> so when you boot the CD-ROM on a CDTV, it should be usable with parnet
> (though I haven't yet confirmed myself that it works, or had any users
> confirm it). This is one of the things on my list of things to test
> for the next CD-ROM.
The user responded back:
> Yes, but you need a keyboard to activate it! And when I want to use the
> CD32 (or CDTV) just as a remote CD-ROM, I shouldn't need to have a
> keyboard at all. Just use the joypad or remote control and click on
> some icon. You just would have to add that icon and give it an c:IconX
> Tool Type. Not any more action to do, very easy. (Well, if you leave it
> in S:, you would have to give the S: drawer a normal icon, else it still
> wouldn't be accessible on the CDTV under OS 1.3.)
The s:Startup-Sequence starts parnet by default. But I added an icon anyway.
I need to either read up on the fine details of running parnet, or have
someone explain to me in excruciating detail how the CD-ROM should be
set up for optimal use of parnet.
I should probably take a look at setting up SerNet on the CD-ROM's as
well...
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RE: Default Tools under pre-2.0 Kickstarts
A user wrote:
> I found a quirk on this 1st CD when used on my CDTV: This runs under
> OS 1.3 and obviously has problems with the command path under Workbench.
> So when I click on some Readme that wants to invoke MuchMore, this
> program isn't found. I think to remember that 1.3 still needs full
> paths in these Default Tool entries of their icons. I'm still trying
> to get this solved under 1.3 with a boot floppy (I've an external floppy
> connected to my CDTV), it's not that easy. I also can't use the Shift-
> click feature for selecting a viewer program and this project file,
> because I have no Shift key on my remote...
and another user wrote:
> When you re-run the first CD, could you please fix the default tools
> of the readme files in the root directory of the Fresh Fish #1? The
> tool is set to "MuchMore", but it should be set to ":c/MuchMore".
There are two aspects to this problem:
(1) What text reader (or other tool) should be used.
For text files, the most universally available reader is the
standard CBM "more" program, though I'm not sure it has always
been found in the same place on all releases. I have decided
to simply start using "more" again.
(2) How is that tool invoked.
Some users suggested using an explicit path, such as ":c/more".
This would all the use of a more popular text reader program, but
the danger here is that there is never any possibility to use
a different reader by default, other than the one hardwired onto
the CD-ROM. What happens, if for example, the copy of ":c/more"
causes a future machine to lockup or crash? If the Workbench
search path is used and the default tool is just "more", there is
always the possibility to install a more up to date copy of "more",
or even substitute a different reader by just calling it "more"
and making sure it is in the search path before the standard
"more".
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RE: Archiving Directories versus Archiving Floppies
A user wrote:
> Another suggestion is that 99% of the users on a BBS does'nt want to
> download a whole disk , they just want the programme on it, mostly of
> the users have still a 2400 baud or slower modem and 3-400 KB take a
> long time to download. When a read yur first letter a thougt that
> "Archived for BBS-Usage" meen that i was the AMINET CD with files
> sorted in directories not 350 whole discs ...
And another user wrote:
> As long as real disks are available keep them in a single archive. But
> when you switch to pure CD-ROM ditribution of new stuff use a single
> archive for each program.
Right now I use a mixture of directory archiving and whole-floppy
archiving. The floppy disks that are put on the CD-ROM are archived
in their entirety, while the new material on the CD-ROM which is not
put on the floppy disks, is archived on a per directory/submission
basis.
It's not clear to me which method is more desirable for the floppy
disks, per-floppy or per-directory archiving. I suspect per-floppy
is more suitable for people that want to retrieve the disks via
ftp or are interested in regenerating floppy di