| From: | Wil Haslup |
| Date: | 26 Mar 2001 at 08:27:55 |
| Subject: | [D5] NO need to respond was Re: St. Louis? |
Hi Dr
On 28-Mar-01, you wrote:
> On 28-Mar-01 16:47:15 Tim Seifert wrote:
>>> H&P are responsible for the altered behavior of Workbench when
>>> running - talk to them about it.
>From the FAQ it seems they have done some things to be compatible. My
question is that it seems without cooperative effort a good, widely
used product is diverging from being fully functional with the current
OS.
>> If you want to sell a product for a particular computer, you have
>> to write it to work with its current operating system.
my point...
<snip...>
> For perhaps the last time I'll try again. Aren't mailing lists
> constructive vehicles.
of course.
> We see it in very very simple terms.
> There is no Amiga market left so who is going to pay for us or other
> developers to support unilateral actions to make changes to an aging
> OS on the part of one German developer who then sells product which
> invalidates existing software. Quite simple.
Ouch! hmmm, it seems another Amiga developer has seen the logic in
attempting to breach the immense Windows market after refining their
product on the Amiga market. Good luck.
I guess if users have problems with this we can find other apps to
work around and do what we did with DOpus.
When the Amiga One launches I wonder how many legacy developers will
continue to get the support of the community if they can't find a way
to work with Amiga Inc.? I realize H&P is a sub contracter and goals
aren't always easy to compromise on. Trouble is that there is a
potential for a large new market on the horizon. I guess everyone
picks there battles and throws their own dice.
> They refused to talk or
> cooperate with other commercial developers remaining on the Amiga in
> this regard. The history is there for all to see. The last time we
> tried to discuss things with them they refused our suggsetions that
> they make the icon library compatible, which they could have done
> but Petro and H&P wanted to maximise profit for minimal development
> expenditure. So the answer is simple. They are welcome to the the
> market all to themselves and have the freedom to create a captive
> market to which they sell their own software. It is the end users
> who will loose.
Sounds like lots of backstory here. Its a shame. I really felt like
DOpus Magellan was mature and worked well with 3.1. I had gotten
things to the point that I actually had it configured to automate a
number of things....took me a while....but probably no longer than to
find other apps and scripts and set them up with the dock or iconx.
> So, shall we end this silly topic now. I am getting tired of
> explaining the same position again and again.
Sorry, I didn't realize this had been explored to this point.
Hi Richard
On 27-Mar-01, you wrote:
> Never figured what's so important about animated app-icons. Reminds
> me too much of that dammed paperclip in M$word.
Well, on the surface I'd agree. Given the Amiga's history adding such
bell's and whistles seems consistent. It was a multimedia system when
the word hadn't been invented.
Current efforts into convergence would seem to argue that interfaces
and access to systems is where things will be changing most in the
near future. I'm hoping for applications that actually get along with
the first channel of user interaction.
Regards
Wil