🚀 go-pugleaf

mra@srchtec.UUCP (Michael Almond) writes:

>In article <marshall.660520379@wind55> marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) writes:
>>I'm kinda pissed at Z-Soft.  I've had this package collecting dust on my
>>bookshelf for a year now and have never been able to use it.

>You mentioned that it worked fine standalone, so it hasn't been
>collecting dust.

I was referring to the old PC Paintbrush IV Plus that I had upgraded to
PC PaintBrush Plus for Windows.  They are two different packages.

And it (Windows version) has been used for a total of less than 15 minutes.  
Most of that time was waiting for screen refreshes.  It's worthless to me.

>> Why have they taken so long getting a Win3 product out?

>Maybe they wanted to do it right, and not just right away.

But they told me before Win3 came out that PCPBfW would work better with
the new Windows than it did with WIN/386 v 2.11.  It will only work in
Real mode.  They said it would work fine with WIN/286 v 2.11.  The
documentation said it supports "Windows 2.01 or later."  No mention of
286 vs 386.  Taking 30 seconds to erase the screen on a 386/25 does not
sound like support to me.

>>All my other winapps have been upgraded.

>They new version of PC Paintbrush isn't just an upgrade to work under
>windows 3.0, many new features and enhancements have been added.

They decided to put their resources in a new product rather than fix the
old one as many other companies did.  Instead of taking a few months to
fix the old product, they are taking a year to make a new one.  It was
their choice.  It's my choice to take my business elsewhere.  I wasted
the government's money on the useless PC Paintbrush Plus for Windows.  
It won't happen again.
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