6065833@PUCC.BITNET (02/09/87)
I have found ExperLogo for the Macintosh a very unsatisfactory product. There
are several problems with it:
The current version was written for 128 and 512K macs, and I have had various
adventures getting it to run on a mac+.
1) To work on a mac+, certain files must be together in a certain folder,
says the company.
2) The program works with System 3.1 and Finder 5.0, but not with any more
recent versions. These versions are obsolete and there are very few
around. They were in any case very buggy.
3) The company told me when I called on 2 occasions 2 different things:
a) "Finder 5.3? When did that come out?" (answer: almost a year ago)
b) "There is a bug in Finder 5.3, which Apple will have to fix. Have
you tried calling Apple?"
4) I have not, after many hours of work, managed to print to a laserwriter;
the program offers very little interfacing support for other applications,
and the documentation is incredibly deficient.
I would not recommend this application to anyone. I have found MS Logo to
be quite nice and flexible, however. Can anyone recommend another LOGO
for the macintosh? Has anyone found a way to print graphics windows on
a laserwriter? Any information would be greatly appreciated.beekman@orstcs.UUCP (02/10/87)
It's my understanding that MS Logo isn't 100% Mac Plus compatible yet. George Beekman, Oregon State University
tom@hoxna.UUCP (02/13/87)
In article <216800011@orstcs.UUCP>, beekman@orstcs.UUCP (beekman) writes: > It's my understanding that MS Logo isn't 100% Mac Plus compatible yet. Could you be more specific? I bought a copy of MS Logo shortly after getting my Mac+. That copy wouldn't run at all (it didn't think it had enough memory to load). I called Microsoft, and they sent me a new copy that has been running fine, as far as I can tell. Since both my kids use Logo a lot, I'd like to what kind of trouble to expect before they come complaining that Logo doesn't work. BTW, after sending me the Mac+ compatible Logo disk, Microsoft told me they weren't handling Logo anymore, and referred me to their supplier. (Sorry, I don't have the name and address immediately available, if anyone needs to know, I can e-mail the information off-net.) Tom McGuigan hoxna!tom