| From: | Steve & Ulli Bowman |
| Date: | 28 Mar 2001 at 08:14:46 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: St. Louis? |
G'day Tim Seifert,
On 28-Mar-01, on the subject of "Re: [D5] St. Louis?", you spoke thus:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
>>> While the Windows version of DOpus is in the works is there any
>>> chance of a patch to the Amiga version so it will more politely
>>> with OS 3.5 or 3.9? ... allowing animated .gifs to work....
>
>> H&P are responsible for the altered behavior of Workbench when Opus
>> running - talk to them about it.
>
> If you want to sell a product for a particular computer, you have to
> write it to work with its current operating system. Insisting the OS is
> changed to suit you, rather than coding for what exists, or refusing to
> accept it as it is, is being pig headed. No matter how good or bad the
> OS actually is.
>
I think the conflict is that code was written that would go out of its way
to detect DOpus and disable WB functions. It has been argued H&P had to
do this to make 3.9 work together with DOpus. Who knows.
> Which beggars the next obviously logical question: If you don't want to
> code to bad or stupid OSs, why are you making a Windows version?
>
[...]
>
> Having said all that, I don't really care about animated imagery
> rubbish, in a file manager. But any (potential) compatibility issues
> aren't something a user should have to deal with. That's a Windows
> programming mentality.
>
Such attitude will make Jon and Greg leap up with pangs of heavy guilt and
recommence Amiga development. Sheesh!
"I'm from Iowa. I only work in outer space."
-- Kirk