Article-I.D.: well.2081
Posted: Fri Nov 21 10:19:56 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Nov-86 20:30:43 EST
Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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I recently posted a message that spoke about the things that I would like
to see in the telecommunications programs available for the Amiga.  I said
alot of things, and one of the responses that came back (tho' not from
any of the writers of these programs) was, "If you want it so bad, why
don't you write it yourself".

Well the simple answer is, "Someone always beats me to it".  I have given
up the ghost on writting something that is original and popular, and con-
tent myself to learn how to write the stuff, and sometimes write something
small that is good.

In my awe, then, of these people who can focus enough to actually stick
with an idea until it is a great working program, I tend to forget to
tell the authors how wonderful their programs really are.  I instead
get all caught up in telling them what I want their programs to do
to more meet my needs.  To all you developers out there, thank you very
much, especially Dave Wecker, and the Software Distillery, and really
especially Fred Fish (finally got thru 40).

What really brought this to the surface was tonight when I spoke to Wendy
from A-squared about the A-Live, I later thought that my relentless quest-
ions about "why won't it do this..." and "why won't it do that..." really
put a damper on her mood at the BADGE meeting.  I am tickled pick about the
framegrabber, but I was just digging for more info, and if only she read
this net.  Oh, well...

By the way, Dale Luck said tonight {as Dale cringes in fear of a mis-quote}
that the release of 1.2 kickstart is identifyable (?) by the big "V1.2"
on the screen that has the hand holding the workbench disk ready to be
inserted.  This one is KickStart 33.179, developers got 33.180 in the
Gamma release.  They are very identical, except that .180 had the "V1.2"
removed again.  The Workbench is 33.47, gamma release is 33.44.  Just
thought you would like to know.  Since Commodore is asking only $15
for the 1.2 release, you know that they are not making any money on this,
so if your friend gets it and you want it, feel free to copy his/her disks
and documentation and save Commodore/Amiga the trouble. I just want to know
where my 33.67 came from......

So, how long til we start to get the beta 1.3 releases??????  Isn't it time
to start asking what is going to be in that release?  Can I boot from the
hard disk, etc, etc.

And if R.J. and Jim M. are not working on Intuition, who is?  I mean who
is incharge of it the way those two were?   Later!

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