Re: Genesys vs. Design Master

[Marc Wolfgram <wolfgram@wctc.net>]

icssofty@aol.com (ICS Softy) wrote:
>I have all three (Design Master, Genesys, and Foundation).
>
>DM is useful, but *extremely* limited.  Genesys has the best (and most)
>custom WYSIWYG editors, but it lacks support for any resources introduced
>past System 5.0.4.  Foundation is probably the most flexible of the three,
>and has the most potential, but it requires you to know a lot more about
>resources than most beginners would know.
>
>Genesys and Foundation together can be a great combo, but if I were just
>starting out again, I'd get Genesys first.  Then maybe add Foundation if I
>became serious enough about it.
>
>Speaking of Foundation.... whatever happened to the group of people who
>were going to take over updating it (The Phoenix group, or whatever they
>were called??)
>
>Larry :)
>
>

Larry, I don't know what happened to the Pheonix Project.  When they
first contacted me for the Foundation sources, they had quite a laundry
list of tasks.  I imagine that the reality of their undertaking was a
bit much.

The Foundation sources _should_ be on the net someplace.  I do know that
they can still be found on AOL in the cobweb-strewn Lunar IC area.

Genesys is dead, although I still have the 1.2.4 sources (mine - not the
buggered-up 1.2.3 that SSSi released as 1.2.4).  I should see if I can
get ahold of Kevin to see if those sources can be released too.

Unfortunately, the GS is a dead market and GS development tools are
quite a tiny nitch in a moribund market.  Chris Haun isn't updating
Design Master from what I remember.  Sumtimes life sucks.

Marc Wolfgram
Former GS Developer