Re: The Manager from Seven Hills (INFO!!)

[ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)]

fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:
: 
: >I have not seen a demo of The Manager yet, but base on the experience
: >of Kangaroo, I am willing to buy it. Too bad if I buy this, there will
: >be one less Procyon customer.
: 
: I hope they have a demo for it.  I have a copy of Kangaroo ( illegal ), BUT I
: don't use it.  It's okay, but really in-efficient, IMO.  With some minor
: modifications it can be an awesome program.  I'll have to see The Manager's
: demo to decide which one to buy.  Procyon should focus on gno and its goodies (
: TC2... etc. ).

I definitely disagreed! - on both comments! 

First, Kangaroo is not as bad as you said. Inefficient? Never! I really like
Kangaroo, the more you use it, the more things you will discovered. BrainStorm
throws in a lot of goodies in this really really cool program. I highly 
recommended it.

(BTW, please throw away your kangaroo and buy a new one if you really want to
use it. Support Apple II software developer.)

Procyon Switch It is a supplement product for its GNO, and I think it is a
good product. GNO do multitasking on text applications, Switch It multitask
the desktop applications (actually, not really, but it is next to it. Future
applications which is Switch It friendly might be able to multitask).

: Agreed.  I am very impressed with the SI! demo.  I hate it when it just force
: me to shut down after about 10 min. though... :P

I hate it when it does not allow me to set the preference, so I cannot make
Finder as startup. And running DreamGrafix from Finder will not work since
there is a two applications limit (Finder run DreamGrafix, and when DG.Code,
the real program is executed, 2 applications limit stops it).

: Actually, with QD2, its okay.  I mean, it'll look okay except the color tables
: will be messed up.  But DG in SBC 3200 mode might be a problem, eh?  SI! is
: kind of slow when switching between programs.  I know that it has to copy some
: memory, but it takes about 1.5 sec. to switch.  Jawaid: couldn't it be faster?
: Or is it just slow because it's only a demo.  :)

It is not OK. The 320 mode software will be half the size horizontally, all
colours are wrong - how disgusting! Switch It has a much better idea - the
applications should take over the whole screen. I am not even sure whether
text applications like ProSEL will work under the Manager, it does not even
have a window for switching!

: I think it's probably more like Mac's system 7.  And if it can be as smooth as
: system 7, then I'll be impressed and satisfied.  System 7 is stable.  My
: friends IIsi don't crash anymore...  It used to crash 2, 3 times a day with
: 6.0.x running multi-finder.

According to someone (is it henrick?), The Manager can only multitask new
applications aware of it (just like future Switch It!) New GraphicWriter III is
one of those software.
 
: There, you got my opinions.

And you got my response.

: frank m. lin
: fmlin@terapin.com

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