Are Legacy staff planning a full-featured program on CD or a free version to replace 10 mb PAF 5 last updated 3.5 years ago? $40 for Legacy TreeDraw and $20 for Legacy Companion is a lot to spend for charts compared to build-in wall charts in $30 to $60 genealogy programs.
Transer of data to or from Legacy 6 needs to be carefully checked because Legacy 6 does not automatically recognize the note spacing of other recent programs. Custom data entry in Legacy 6 is lost in GEDCOM imports by other programs. When WinME and WinXP were pre-loaded on retail computers, Legacy staff were working with Win98 and Win2000 computeres. They didn't see variations reported by paying customers of Legacy 3 and 4 for up to 18 months. I didn't buy 16 bit Legacy 2 because pictures had long file names from March 1996 but have downloaded 127 public builds of Legacy 3-4-5-6 since Feb 2000. Early Legacy 3 customers were charged a second time after Dec 2000 for Deluxe Legacy 3. Most of the time, the intended project was on hold hoping for different options in the Legacy Narrative report. Now the delay is with Legacy 6 book options that do not work as expected. Geo Database added in Legacy 5, Research Guidance in Legacy 6 and multiple languages are not useful to me. Improvements in reports and built-in charts were discussed on the list when Legacy 3 was released about the end of Feb 2000. Extra cost addons were a big surprise in December 2000. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herbert Palm" > I surely hope the programmers are reading this. These a factual numbers I > can and have repeatedly generated. What has bothered me for many builds > and at least the last two major upgrades is repeatedly redrawing the > screen when Legacy first loads. I consider that a sign of code > over-written by newer/better code. A major code clean up, i.e. a clean > program write, would probably go a l-o-n-g way toward a smoother and > leaner Legacy making optimum use of resources on ANY system!!! Rather > than putting all your efforts into new bells and whistles, do something > for the users that have supported the program over the years and are very > happy with the way it used to work. My first version of Legacy came on > two 1.44meg diskettes. Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
