xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) (01/19/91)
hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Adam Hill) writes: > .. And to interject even more IBM stuff in the Amiga Group...... > I WISH SOMEONE WOULD PORT HARVARD GRAPHICS!!! You have to use this > program with Draw Partner to appreciate it. I whipped out some > variations of our company logo and logos for each depts in under > 20minutes! I did a a few graphs of sales vs. X and a few others in > another 20. It was INCREDIBLY easy. (And I haven't even seen the > AutoGraphix Slide and Transparancy Service in action!!) Well, as a former employee working on H.G. 3.0, I can tell you that when I (repeatedly) mentioned how much easier it would be to make the code work on an Amiga, they just looked at me like I was daft, then sat me down and explained the Marketing View of Reality to me. In a phrase: No Way! I heard "toy computer" and "no business presence" a lot too. This despite repeated presentations by Amiga developers to SPC management. So tell me, did they ever release 3.0? They booted me for "slowing the project down" (my part was wrapped before anyone elses, but they had slipped seven months in the nine months I was there and needed a scapegoat (IMHO); a year after I got the door they had slipped about another year, and were still adding bodies to a late project, but their press releases were telling how work to shoehorn the bigger applications into the 640K universe was turning the old one year projects into two year projects, blah, blah, blah), it's been about 3.5 years for a nine month project, is it soup yet? ;-) Kent, the man from xanth. <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us> -- Sweet revenge is most often received by the patient.
hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland) (01/26/91)
I dunno, but after using Harvard Graphics on a PC at work several times, I'm not all that impressed with it. --Moriland -- | hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu | __ | | | __/// Viva Amiga! | | Founder Of: Evil Young | \XX/ | | Mutants For A Better Tomorrow | "Single Tasking: JUST SAY NO!" |
cmw1725@tamsun.u.washington.edu (Christopher Walton) (01/26/91)
In article <4867@vela.acs.oakland.edu> hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland) writes: > >I dunno, but after using Harvard Graphics on a PC at work several >times, I'm not all that impressed with it. > > --Moriland > >-- Not that I like Harvard Graphics all that much, but you have to use an application like that more than several times to get "impressed" with some of it's features. Programs like that take a while to see the little quirks that make things easy and overall GOOD. (Though the Ami is better!) Christopher Walton cmw1725@tamsun.tamu.edu n074ev@tamuts.tamu.edu