Hello Uffe
On 02-sep-99, you wrote:
> Would it now? Why are we as users allowed to force the programmer to make
> his programs in a certain way to compensate for our old equipment?
Because we are the customers? We pay them for their work? I don't force
nobody, but we have the right to do with our money what we want. So yes, we
are allowed to not buy a program because we can't run it. This is not forcing
anybody, it's common sense.
Why not
> the other way around? Why isn't it reasonable for the programmer to make
> the program requirements so large that we are forced to upgrade our
> computer to run it decently?
Because they don't pay me to use their software, I pay them to get the right
to use the software. No, it's not reasanable for anybody who wants to sell
something to force people into anything. Where did you get that idea? Of
course software developers are free to develop for whatever market they want,
but they can't force me to join that market. And if they only develop for a
very small part of an already very small market, they won't sell much. That
said, given some RAM, V�pre2 will run under AGA, and if people want to do so,
they can. Sure, it will benefit from a graphics board, but such a card is not
forced upon us in order to make Voyager run.
> Is that an excuse for a program to be able to run on AGA? I rather see
> it as the incentive to the people having AGA that it is about time they
> got a graphics card.
Want the bank-accounts of some people you might wanna sponsor on that? :-)
> "Oh, I know, but I can't afford a graphics card".
> Bullshit again, you have had five years to find the necessary
> money.
I find this offensive. Very. I have a family to support, Work five full days a
week as a nurse (which is not to well paid), and, to be honoust, have had a
hard time the past five years to even pay the rent and buy food for my wife
and my kids. You say that's bullshit? Okay, I'll let my children starve to
death, so that I can save on my bills, and than in two years time I might have
the money to buy a gfx. card.
> 1. upgrade you old computer to reflect today
Okay, I'll give you my bank-account
> 2. downgrade your software to something suitable for you old computer.
Can't downgrade to software that doesn't exist. And again, all software on the
market today will work without gfx-card, so why downgrade the software.
Voyager, ImageProcessing programs (up to ImageFX4, which is the latest),
PageStream 4 all work without gfx card. Sure they benefit of one, but your
statements are all wrong, because there is (maybe apart from some games, don't
know, never play games) no software I have found that requires a gfx-card.
> Uffe Holst
I should have known that. Telling the same "upgrade or die" story every two
months.
Dirk
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