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- From: rwifall@nmsu.edu (Richard J Wifall)
- Subject: Re: DeskTracker's back...
- In-Reply-To: sbennett@gnh-starport.cts.com's message of 19 Nov 92 17:18:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <RWIFALL.92Nov19175018@dante.nmsu.edu>
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- Organization: NMSU Computer Science
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:50:18 GMT
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- In article <m0ms6YD-0000dhC@crash.cts.com> sbennett@gnh-starport.cts.com (Stephen Bennett) writes:
-
- > <sigh> This is both to you and to the gentleman who developed the DOS 3.3
- > loader (John MacLean, I believe... forgive me if that's inaccurate...)
- >
- > I support GS programs (and all Apple II programs, for that matter!) as much
- > possible... but there are some that I either simply don't have a use for,
- > B) I may think are nifty, but I don't have the time/memory/disk space/pick
- > something to use... While I may still pick up some software I think is rea
- That is all good and great and fine, but my point main point
- is that:
- If people don't support their machine, the CAN'T and SHOULD'NT
- expect their machine to be supported.. It's that simple. I'm not
- talking just for myself in saying this, but I am talking for many of
- my friends who program for the AppleII.. Granted that alot of us
- program mainly for fun but cleaning up a program good enough to
- release it is not the fun part of programming. (ditto goes for
- documentation and other stuff that is necessary for a person to use a
- program who doesn't know anything about it) Basically what it boils
- down to is if the apple community scratches the programmers backs, the
- programmers will scratch the apple community's back in return. If
- they don't, well then the programmer will stay till it isn't fun
- anymore, and will move on to other things. Getting responses saying
- "Hey, I like your stuff" or whatever helps make programming something
- more enjoyable.. IE fun..
-
- > outstanding even if I don't need it, I don't have enough money to do much o
- > that... maybe one day I'll get an inheritance from an uncle I didn't know
- I understand this very well, and I agree, that not all
- programs are for all people. *I* and other programmers do not expect
- to get a response from everyone. The sad thing is that for the most
- part programmers expect to get a response from NOBODY..
- And yes, I do have numbers to back this up... but I guess one
- can't expect to hear from more then (2.5% or less) of the people who
- use your program.. (all sarcasm intended..)
- > it... The problem right now being that I don't use MODs or DOS 3.3 program
- Oh, and DeskTracker doesn't play Mods..
- > and of the ones it *does* apply to, most won't write anyway, from lack of
- > time, lack of interest, etc. Even folks that (heresy!) don't read
- And the people that it does apply to, and who do use it, and
- don't write/pay (be it freeware, shareware or commercial) anyway, are
- the ones who are killing the apple..
-
- > There are lots of folks who are really interested in keeping the Apple II
- > alive -- that's why The Alliance is doing so well...
- Maybe their time and efforts would be better spent writing to
- programmers instead of writing to a organization from which at least I
- personally have seen nothing come from..
-
- > /__Stephen_Bennett,_Co-Sysop_StarPort_BBS_(Va.)_703/560-9308__14.4K_bps____
-
- flames to >/dev/null
-
- --
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- |Richard Wifall - rwifall@nmsu.edu - IRCnick: TheJazz - Member GS<>IRC |
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- |Ask me about DeskTracker, BorderBlinker, and a demo that Dave hasn't finished|
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