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EMC Phase1
Customer Comments, Suggestions and Feedback
The following text file has been compiled to answer the comments,
suggestions and feedback that we received from some our Phase1 customers.
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Carl Gamble and the guys from Optonica Limited
Rated the Phase 1 CD at 93%
COMMENT:
"The ONLY criticism that we could come up with was that the
images do not have 24 bit versions included."
RESPONSE:
Yes, a fair point but, in all honesty we really didn't think
that 24 bit versions of the images were needed. Our market
research concluded that the majority of our established EMC
PD/Shareware library customers (over 14,000) have relatively
low end Amiga systems. We have found that the average system
used by our customers consists of an A1200 with around 6mb of
ram, a relatively small hard drive, a CD drive and perhaps an
accelerator. A fair percentage of our customers are still using
WB1.3 based machines!What's the point in filling the CDs up
with 24 bit files that only a small percentage of our customer
can make any use of?
Furthermore, the EMC PHASE 1, 2 & 3 CD's are directed towards
Amiga desktop publishers and video enthusiasts and to be honest
unless these users have some pretty impressive hardware they
can't really make full use of 24 bit images! A great proportion
of the images on PHASE 1 originated as 256 colour GIFs and
although, I suppose, we could have quite easily loaded these
images into AdPro and saved them out as 24 bit files (like some
companies do) just to pad the CD out, but we felt that this
would defeat the purpose and not offer our customers very good
value for money.
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Mr. P. J. Richards from Kent
COMMENT:
Phoned us up wanting to say that he assumed that PHASE 1 would
be have copied what he needed to Ram: (like the Aminet CDs)
He felt that the Aminet CDs structure was excellent (so do we!)
He aslo felt that the PHASE 1 CD structure was too complex and
made life overly complicated to find a particular piece of
clipart.
RESPONSE:
We explained that the Aminet CDs were a completely different
product and although the Aminet disk operation was good it
wouldn't really work with the EMC CDs. To take the example, if
you wanted a piece of clipart from PHASE 1 of a male office
worker...using Aminet's method of operation it would copy over
2 megabytes of clipart to Ram: How many people have that much
memory spare after loading their system, their DTP package and
probably a file management program?
Furthermore, the files on PHASE 1 are not archived, so we
didn't really see the point of this type of operation. We did a
lot of research and spent a lot of time thinking about the
PHASE 1 layout and we sincerely feel that once you are used to
the method we adopted you will find it easy to use!
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David Duncan from Cheshire
Rated the Phase 1 CD at 83%
COMMENT:
His registration can suggested that a) we added some colour to
the icon and b) we centralised text in ALL readme and text
files.
RESPONSE:
a) Yes, a fair comment Duncan! We assume that you mean adding
colour to the text & preview icons? We had considered even
using Magic WB icons but, some people don't use MagicWB and
the result would be that the icons would look crap on
standard machines! We agree that, maybe, our text and
preview etc. icons look drab and boring but, you must admit
that they are all uniform and they do look the same on all
Amigas. After all we had to cater for customers using Amigas
of all configurations.
b) Centralise the text to what specifications? There are so
many configurations of Amigas out there, and Workbench even
has the option to use a different default font. With this in
mind I'm sure you appreciate the fact that it's a little
difficult to create a text file that will look good on all
machines. To give you an example...People using the Picasso
card can have a workbench that is 1280, or more, pixels
wide. This basically means that they have double the normal
screen width, so if we had formatted the text files, for
example, to these specifications and used carriage returns
the results would have looked good to Picasso users but
would have looked a complete mess to everybody else!
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Kenneth Packard from County Durham
Rated the Phase 1 CD at 93%
COMMENT:
His registration card requested pictures of Film and Pop stars
on our future CD releases
RESPONSE:
Your wishes have been granted...you'll find just over 29 mbs of
these images on EMC Phase 2
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Neil Adams from Norfolk
Rated the Phase 1 CD at 97.5%
COMMENT:
Easy file mover such as is on the Weird Science CD, for easy
movement of fonts etc. into the desired drawers.
RESPONSE:
Yes Neil, I guess this is a good idea. To be honest we had
originally thought of this, but we genuinely feel that most
Amiga users nowadays have Directory Opus, especially since
version 4 was given away on a CU Amiga coverdisk! We could
include something like the shareware directory utility DirWorks
on the Phase2 & CDs but we feel that it could prove potentially
destructive to some users since they could quite easily start
deleting important files from their systems.
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G.W. Thompson from Tyne & Wear
Rated the Phase 1 CD at 92.5%
COMMENT:
a) The organisation and layout of directories, along with the
illustrated index for each font or illustration could not be
bettered, and serves as an example for other companies to
follow.
b) The only reason you didn't get top marks for contents was
because I found some examples of duplication. Not many I
admit, but when the standard you set for the rest of the disc
was so high I felt I had to mark you down in that area.
c) As for any suggestions for future releases, all I can say is
more of the same please!
d) Don't worry about the cover, it's the contents that count!
RESPONSE:
a) Not much can be said concerning this comment...our press
release (prior to the Phase 1 launch) stated
"We genuinely
feel that the current CD situation stinks and we at EMC are
aiming to set the standard on which all CDs on the Amiga will
be judged"
I guess that we lived up to our claim!
b) Yes, I admit that a few seemed to have slipped through the net
and I honestly don't have an excuse except to say that we were
processing in excess of 5 gigabytes of data and it was
virtually impossible to filter all duplicates out. However,
you must appreciate the fact that this minor duplication was
unintentional, unlike some other companies, who duplicate
entire directories of data on the same CDs.
c) I'm sure you really don't mean that literally! hehehe
No seriously, I'm sure that you'll be happy with this
(EMC-Phase2) and the forthcoming EMC-Phase3 CD.
d) Yes, we realise that this is true, but we invested a great
deal of time (and heaps of money) into this CD and we just
wanted everything to be right. It was really soul destroying to
have been let down at the last hurdle!
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S. Fredericks from Essex
Rated the Phase 1 CD at 100%
COMMENT:
Great CD, can't wait to receive the others. It's guys like you
that make owning an Amiga worthwhile!
RESPONSE:
How could we possibly comment on this? except for saying thanks!
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Gary Farr from Kent
Rated the Phase 1 CD at 85%
COMMENT:
More font previews grouped on a single page!
RESPONSE:
I'm not totally sure what you mean here, but I'm assuming that
you want more than one font on the same font preview screen.
I can't really see the point of this since it seems to us that
the whole idea on having a font preview is to preview a font!
If for example, we had put two different fonts, one called Fred
and the other called Wilma, on the same preview screen...where
would we have put the actual preview picture file? In Fred's
font drawer or in Wilma's font drawer? If we had put the same
preview, of two different fonts, in both directories, this would
have probably caused more confusion than it was worth!
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Craig Stevens from Sterlingshire
Rated the Phase 1 CD at 97.5%
COMMENT:
I have a great number of Amiga CDs and to be truthful your Phase
1 CD is easily the best! I sincerely hope that the other CD
producers and developers out there will sit up, take notice and
hopefully start producing CDs that can match the quality that
Phase 1 has achieved. Well done EMC! Keep up the good work! The
only reason that I have not given the Phase 1 CD full marks is
because mine arrived with a broken case!
RESPONSE:
What can I say Craig? Our press releases for Phase 1,2 & 3 basic-
ally said what we felt about the current Amiga CD situation
(please see the Welcome! text file on this & Phase1 CD) We feel
that there are far too many companies out there that are just
interested in ripping their customers off! These companies just
seem to shovel TOTAL AND UTTER CRAP from one CD to another with
very little thought or organisation!
I'm sorry about the broken CD case, I can assure you that you CD
left here in perfect condition.
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Paul Andrews from Lancashire
Rated the Phase 1 CD at 92.5%
COMMENT:
Phase 1 is absolutely superb, please put my name down for Phase2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9... I have been a customer of yours for quite
a while now and your software has consistently been of excellent
quality. The Phase 1 CD is literally the "icing on the cake"
RESPONSE:
Don't get carried away with your ordering, we haven't even thought
about Phase 5 yet not to mention Phase 6, 7 etc., I guess that we
probably have enough new material available to bring out Phase 5+
but you must consider development time, Phase 1 alone took the
best part of 2 months to sort out. I guess that we could have just
shoveled the data from out floppies to the CD but our reputation
means an awful lot to us and we ARE NOT prepared to become
CD "Shovelware" developers. Anyway Paul, A big thank you for your
positive comments.
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Alan Myers from Bedfordshire
Rated the Phase 1 CD at 95%
COMMENT:
a) The fact that you seemed genuinely concerned about the
printing error on the EMC Phase 1 CD says an awful lot about
your company's commitment to quality.
b) After spending much time delving into the inner workings and
contents of EMC Phase1 I have come to the conclusion that you
have produced an excellent CD, one which I honestly cannot
fault. The reason that I haven't given EMC Phase 1 full marks
is because I am leaving a little room to manoeuvre when
judging/ grading EMC's Phase 2's registration card.
RESPONSE:
a) Yes, we were genuinely concerned about the Phase 1 CD's
artwork error. We spent the best part of 3 weeks raging war
on the CD production company and their printers. Although we
weren't responsible we have admitted defeat and payed for a
reprint. As a direct result of this, the CD production
company have lost all our present and future business and we
have shifted our business to a German company. Many of our
Phase 1 CD customers have already said that it really doesn't
matter (see G W Thompson's comments above) but, as far as we
are concerned IT DID MATTER!
b) Glad to hear that you were happy with EMC Phase 1 and I guess
that we'll have to buck our ideas up if we want to gain your
full marks with EMC Phase 2! hehehe
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Well folks, that's about all I can manage to fit in here. Although we have
already sold a great many Phase 1 CDs we have had VERY FEW registration
cards sent back to us. You are all probably too busy having fun with the CD
to find the time to send the registration card back! If you would like to see
your name in "flashing lights" in the "Feedback" text file on the Phase 3 CD
all I can say is...
GET YOUR REGISTRATION CARDS BACK TO US AS FAST AS YOU CAN!
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EMCPhase1.Feedback
3rd October 1995
Errol...E.M.Computergraphic