Re: Doom Conversion (was Dragons Lair

[mquattro@chat.carleton.ca (Michael Quattrocchi)]

Auri Man (aar7334@exodus.valpo.edu) wrote:

>      1.  afford upgrades (not ask for funding)

who has asked for funding here? Some of you people honestly amaze
me. You are basing your entire argument on conjecture, and very little fact.
Get some of the facts straight, then perhaps try a comparison.
Unlimited products are available for sale; it's just whether or not
the PURCHASER can afford the products. ie I could have designed a IIgs
Video Upgrade Card or something four years ago, but you would have
just had to pay the price of the one card that I would have eventually
produced... 

>      2.  get them out faster (team, not single person)

Uh, is that really why you think that TurboRez has taken so long to
come out, because it's one dude in his basement working on some
massive IIgs card? There is a TurboRez team, FYI, (in fact, I do
believe that these are the same RezTek people that have produced Video
hardware products for the Amiga or other platforms...) ie for the
second time in this post, get your facts, let alone get them straight.  

>      3.  distribute to a solid consumer base, this means that their
>          reputation as a good company that usually delivers on time <grin>
>          will give their customers incentive to buy their product, and 
>          expect upgrades.  

ie, like Sequential with their own "on-time" release of the Second Sight?
Hardly. The wait for a IIgs video card is the same as it has ever
been, tolerable; because it's obvious that such a card will never come
from our machine's manufacturer, so we're at the obvious mercy of the
third party teams.

> Think of RezTek (of the little I know about the project, I admit):

and it's blatantly apparent...

>      1.  one person working on the project

BZZZT! First strike.

>      2.  cannot guarantee hardware updates

BZZZT! Second strike.

>      3.  cannot guarantee software updates

BZZZT! Third strike. 

>      4.  must ask for funding

BZZZT! Fourth strike. (Play baseball much?)

>      5.  has no other hardware products (that I know of) to base
>          reliability on (shot in the dark if this works right)

need they? For years they've been the team working on a IIgs video
upgrade, and that's been good enough for me. When CirTech was working
on the Mac emulator card for the IIgs, I highly doubt it would have
mattered to anyone whether they had heard a lot about this company before
so long as they had a mac running on their IIgs.

>      6.  has no consumer base, so people won't be as willing to buy
>          a card from a company they know nothing about

See above.

> Maybe I'm just a Sequential fan, but they have never let me down, and have
> always had great technical support, given upgrades, and have been very 
> polite over the years, so I would have to go with them.  Sure, I found a 

which companies persay (other than LRO) can provide anything
other than that and still remain in business?

> such as on the laptop I just purchased.  Also, many people have purchased
> PCs and can switch between the same monitor without spending dollar one on
> another monitor.  

and I can use my IIgs monitor as a TV... I have a feeling television
will severely outlast VGA technology. 

> decided to work on the SS instead of the TR, especially since they will
> _have_ something to work on, instead of hopes of glory and pizza :)

uh, I don't remember reading anything about pizza in any other cards
press releases... must have been in the fine print, along with your
excuse for blatant ignorance... 

> Well, that's my 2c worth of reasoning, and I need to get to class!  FINALS!

more like you went into debt on that; perhaps you owe the RezTek team
an apology...

> -Auri
> (My opinions are my own, not PowerGS's.)

I hope so, or I'd hate to be in the libel department for your mag...  

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Michael Quattrocchi -- "resistance is futile..." 
* note *  I have no affiliation with RezTek or Sequential, and as
stated before, will likely purchase at least one of the boards. I just
can't stand to watch csa2 become a soapbox for some peoples' blatantly
misleading chatter.