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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

3524.0. "UltraCard Woes!" by HYDRA::BOAEN () Sun Feb 25 1990 02:23

Has anyone delt with Intuitive Technologies recently? I just purchased
UltraCard. It's supposed to be two disks, however, the 2nd disk is
properly labled as VOLUME ULTRA2: , but it's someone's workbench disk
with TurboBackup and their Todo list! I've tried to call them and gotten
'this number is not in service'. Have left mail on their BBS, and just
checked - No response to my mail of 14 Feb.

	The other disk seems to have the main program, it comes up, but
whenever I try to use it, it seems to be going to the ULTRA2: volume
for a file, which of course isn't there, and the next thing is  a visit
from the GURU. 

	Does anyone have a version of UltraCard that works, or is that
why the phone isn't being answered? I'm going to try sending a complaint
registered mail w/ a return receipt and see what happens.

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3524.1LEDS::ACCIARDILarger than life, and twice as uglySun Feb 25 1990 11:1429
    
    I don't own Ultracard, but I am going to make a few wild comments
    here...
    
    Mike Lehman, author of UltraCard, should be banned from selling Amiga
    software.  This guy has done more to perpetuate the image of the Amiga
    as a bug-ridden pile of junk than all other slobs combined.
    
    Lehman was the main author of MaxiPlan.  I paid $150 for MaxiPlan in
    1986 and it took over three years and 13 upgrades before the program
    became stable, and I can still crash it about 10 different ways if I
    want to.  I will ABSOLUTELY NEVER purchase any product that
    Lehman has had anything to do with.
    
    Now, about UltraCard... I'm afraid that the message threads on Plink
    indicate that all releases up to and including the current one are
    extremely buggy.  I had downloaded a few try-ware UltraCard Browsers,
    but they all crashed within two or three mouse clicks.  I'd swear that
    this guy compiles and then shrink wraps his product without even
    checking to see if it runs!
    
    These are strong words, but they indicate my level of frustration with
    a programmer who simply has NEVER release an even marginally stable
    product.
    
    CanDo, a competing product, has been getting lots of glowing praise on
    Plink.  UltraCard has been getting singed left and right.
    
    Ed.
3524.2too badSALEM::LEIMBERGERMon Feb 26 1990 07:5615
    While I use CanDo,I hope that ultracard would will make it. This
    is a very important area for the Amiga,and it will no doubt be used
    as a base for comparision to HyperCard. This makes it a very Visible
    (parden the pun) market area,and we cannot afford to have a shoddy
    product in this area. Lets hope they eathier get it together,or
    belly up before the market takes a shot.While CanDO seems ok,you
    all know what product the competition will compare themselves too.
	    re. 1 I also saw this on another product.
    I was looking at Optics,and the second disk had TurboBackup on it.
    Makes you wonder if the people duplicating these disk were the same.
    I don't imagine all companies do their own duplicating. I think
    it took several trys before I found a good version,of course by
    then I'd already purchased TurboSilver.Another thought is some of
    the small companies may USE TurboBackup to make their duplicates,and
    were sleeping at the clutch when they did the copying. 
3524.3Slurp...FROCKY::BALZERChristian Balzer DTN:785-1029Mon Feb 26 1990 10:1423
    Re: .*
    
    Yeah, I hate to admit it, but I purchased Ultracard back at the
    AmiExpo in Cologne. It sucks. To be precise:
    
    It sucks dead gerbils thru a dirty garden hose...
    
    I saw the CanDo demo and Viva! and I'll probably wait for the CBM
    authoring system until I purchase another product in that arena.
    
    BTW, my friend (but not Brewery member) and co-author of TurboBackup
    will be 'pleased' to hear that companies are using his product to
    generate distribution copies. There's an explicit clause in the
    doc file that forbids such usage, unless cleared by the authors.
    Two companies that did so are Radical Eye Software (yeah Tom Rokicki's
    AmigaTex is duplicated this way) and C-Light.
    
    
    Have Lehmann shoot, will ya folks?
    
    <CB>