dailey@cpsin2.uucp (Chris Dailey) (06/07/90)
I figured it was about time to change the Subject: heading. But anyway: In article <46200075@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jhc00614@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > To Chris Dailey, who asked why Amiga's are bundled w/ a decent word >processor like MacWrite is on the Mac... > Apple used to bundle MacWrite for the Mac but it really stifled WP >development for the system. Who'd want to shell out bucks for another WP >when MacWrite was decent enough? [...] I know Mac developers >were very happy about that. > For the same reasons, I figure, CBM will not bundle much more than >notepad and Amiga Basic. We'd probably never have gotten WordPerfect, ProWrite, If you look at MicroSoft Word or WordPerfect on the Mac, they are both far better than the early versions of MacWrite. I think MacWrite was originally intended to fill a very small need. If someone needed more than that, they could look for more. I think when they started making MacWrite bigger (5.0 has spellcheck, etc.) was when things became difficult. A simple word processor right now would, in my opinion, make the others strive for a better product. I think that professional products (those with professional prices, eg ProWrite @ $175) must have extra features that people are willing to pay $175 for. I wouldn't pay that much for a bunch of features I don't need! But I can see where someone that needed those features would, and rightly should! Maybe Commodore could have a simple word processor of their own that they could sell separately for maybe $20 that does fonts and maybe imports graphics in a manner similar to the early versions of MacWrite. Maybe add tabs, headers, footers, l/r margins. There you have your product, nice and simple, user friendly. Right now I see nothing like that out for the Amiga. I am surprised since this is an area that is usually filled by PD/Shareware. > Also, look at the flak CBM is taking for bundling AmigaVision w/ their >computers now..... I haven't really seen it, but then again I'm not on top of the Multi-Media world. As far as I can tell, if there wasn't really a product out there that was good enough to compete with Amiga-Vision, then why are people complaining? If there was, then please forgive my ignorance. This seems to me like a good step for Commodore to take. -- /~\ Chris Dailey (CPS Undergrad, SOC Lab Coord, AMIG user group Secretary) C oo dailey@cpsin1.cps.msu.edu (subliminal message-make WP5.1 for the Amiga) _( ^) "I am thankful for one leg. To limp is no disgrace -- / ~\ I may not be number one, but I can still run the race." -from B.C.
new@udel.EDU (Darren New) (06/07/90)
In article <1990Jun7.135337.19043@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> dailey@cpsin2.uucp (Chris Dailey) writes: >Maybe Commodore could have a simple word processor of their own that >they could sell separately for maybe $20 that does fonts and maybe >imports graphics in a manner similar to the early versions of MacWrite. Maybe just an improvement of NotePad. Maybe just getting the bugs out of NotePad. Is NotePad supposed to be bug-free in 2.0? I know it isn't out yet, but I guess I'm asking whether the bugs in notepad (text loss, format garbling) have been worked on. Has it been 2.0ed in terms of standard gadgets and file reqs and such? -- Darren