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From: pfinch@best.com (Phillip Finch)
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Subject: Re: (New) windows modeller!!
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Kon Wilms <static@iafrica.com> wrote re: the AMAPI modeller:
>First, it's not a mac port. As far as I know, the Mac version came after
the PC.
>If people bothered to look, things would be so much easier. Broaden your mind.
(much snipping in the interests of bandwidth on a topic of only peripheral
interest; ordinarily I wouldn't reply at all, but since narrow-mindedness is
one of the few sins I've never been accused of...)
>From lesson 5 in the tutorial demo:
" The cancel key is the key "APPLE" with the key "Z""
Maybe this wasn't a leftover from the original Mac version, carelessly
overlooked. But I wouldn't bet on it.
In any case, the instructions are *still* in near pidgin English.
And the tutorials *still* crash at nearly every turn.
Hey, I have nothing against new-and-different. Really. And it's not like I
downloaded the demo to have the pleasure of jumping all over it. I've been
looking for a modeller that does certain things better than LW. I'm prepared
to take brilliance--or even competence--where I find it.
But in 15 years of using computers, I have wasted too many hundreds of hours
trying to be productive with applications that were ruined by inattention to
detail. So I guess you could say that I'm prejudiced when I run across when
a demo as shoddily-done as this one.
If an aversion to poorly-written docs and buggy software is a sign of a
closed mind, then I guess I'm guilty after all. It must be old age setting in.
>Modeller is not the do-all end-all solution.
No. But the instructions are intelligible, and it works...
Cheers,
Phil Finch (still looking for that damn APPLE key on his IBM keyboard)