Re: Spectors put-down of SQC (was: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

[richard.b@genie.com]

"Charles T. Turley" <cturley@wco.com> writes:
>Welcome to the legion of Apple II Vogens! Sounds to me like you are 
>(from your own personal conclusions and relationship with them -SQC-) 
>writing Scranton Quality Computer (SQC) off of the Apple II vendors of 
>software in general. IMHO, that's a rather foolish thing to do and/or 
>post. 

That's because you, Mr. Turley, are paid to write for II Alive. It would not
be in your best interests to pay out on Quality or your good buddy Mr.
Rubywand.

>So, SQC wasn't able to pull off an update and/or bug fix for Platinum 
>Paint or AppleWorks GS, etc.  Big deal, neither was anybody else - for 
>that matter, including Burger Bill!

What a load of rubbish. I know of a number of developers and publishers who
were also contacted regarding updating AWGS (Take a guess), only to find out
later how much they were willing to pay. Bill can speak for himself, but I'm
assuming he was the only one willing to start work before being paid.

If Quality had really wanted an update, they could have produced one. The
talent was still available in the Apple II community, only the funds
weren't.

>Again (IMHO) you seem to be simply expressing your spoiled, demanding 
>and jaded attitude towards a company (SQC) that doesn't meet up to your 
>personal needs, dictates and expectations. SQC continues to show as much 

Funny. Seems to be the opinion of a lot of people recently. Funny, also
seems to co-incide with when you started writing articles for them. Tell us
about Wolfenstain one more time, please...

>It's posts like yours - that turns the public off to what is still 
>available for the Apple II and IIGS from such vendors as SQC. That 
>really puzzles me, as you profess to be an active supporter of this 
>computer platform and the Apple II community in general - yet constantly 
>rag and rant over past issues from SQC that everybody should understand 
>they could not do anything about, with the past shortcomings and all 
>limitations they had to deal and work with, on such issues as an update 
>and/or bug fixes to AppleWorks GS and Platinum Paint. 

Rant. Rant. This, coming from a pirate.

>Think about the content of your post and the potential dammage it might 
>have caused to SQC, with what it does have to offer to the Apple II 
>users, as well as the impressions new csa2 newsgroup readers, that 
>reviewed your post content and comments  - this reply addresses!

>Cheers,
>Tom

Ditto!

Regards,
 Richard Bennett

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