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I don't own Ultracard, but I am going to make a few wild comments
here...
Mike Lehman, author of UltraCard, should be banned from selling Amiga
software. This guy has done more to perpetuate the image of the Amiga
as a bug-ridden pile of junk than all other slobs combined.
Lehman was the main author of MaxiPlan. I paid $150 for MaxiPlan in
1986 and it took over three years and 13 upgrades before the program
became stable, and I can still crash it about 10 different ways if I
want to. I will ABSOLUTELY NEVER purchase any product that
Lehman has had anything to do with.
Now, about UltraCard... I'm afraid that the message threads on Plink
indicate that all releases up to and including the current one are
extremely buggy. I had downloaded a few try-ware UltraCard Browsers,
but they all crashed within two or three mouse clicks. I'd swear that
this guy compiles and then shrink wraps his product without even
checking to see if it runs!
These are strong words, but they indicate my level of frustration with
a programmer who simply has NEVER release an even marginally stable
product.
CanDo, a competing product, has been getting lots of glowing praise on
Plink. UltraCard has been getting singed left and right.
Ed.
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| While I use CanDo,I hope that ultracard would will make it. This
is a very important area for the Amiga,and it will no doubt be used
as a base for comparision to HyperCard. This makes it a very Visible
(parden the pun) market area,and we cannot afford to have a shoddy
product in this area. Lets hope they eathier get it together,or
belly up before the market takes a shot.While CanDO seems ok,you
all know what product the competition will compare themselves too.
re. 1 I also saw this on another product.
I was looking at Optics,and the second disk had TurboBackup on it.
Makes you wonder if the people duplicating these disk were the same.
I don't imagine all companies do their own duplicating. I think
it took several trys before I found a good version,of course by
then I'd already purchased TurboSilver.Another thought is some of
the small companies may USE TurboBackup to make their duplicates,and
were sleeping at the clutch when they did the copying.
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| Re: .*
Yeah, I hate to admit it, but I purchased Ultracard back at the
AmiExpo in Cologne. It sucks. To be precise:
It sucks dead gerbils thru a dirty garden hose...
I saw the CanDo demo and Viva! and I'll probably wait for the CBM
authoring system until I purchase another product in that arena.
BTW, my friend (but not Brewery member) and co-author of TurboBackup
will be 'pleased' to hear that companies are using his product to
generate distribution copies. There's an explicit clause in the
doc file that forbids such usage, unless cleared by the authors.
Two companies that did so are Radical Eye Software (yeah Tom Rokicki's
AmigaTex is duplicated this way) and C-Light.
Have Lehmann shoot, will ya folks?
<CB>
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