PG2 Question
Derek,
I agree that customers should decide, on their own terms, which word
processor they want to use and when they should shop for a new one. I
also know that the Commodore 64 (while still meeting many user's needs) is
no longer a viable means for a developer to make money. The market just
isn't there anymore. The decision to drop Word Perfect support is not
going to be a make or break resolution of SoftWood's future success (or
failure).
Word Perfect support is still desired by some few hundred users.
Weighing that against the thousands that use ProWrite 3.3 and KindWords
3.0 and, if you were the developer, you would probably have made the same
decision. It all comes down to choices. Some are good and some are bad.
One can never know how the market-place will react.
So far, the reaction has been overwhelmingly favorable. The local
users (I'm a member of a user group) feel the decision was a good one.
Also, since I started working at SoftWood (December 16th was my first
day), 2 (count 'em, two) users called and happened to mention that they
thought removing WordPerfect support was not in their favor. Stacked
against the dozens that have said, "It doesn't matter to me." or "Good
idea!", I'd say SoftWood made the right choice.
Now, on to Final Copy II:
Formatted text output: No plans that I am aware of.
HotLinks: I doubt it. I (not an official SoftWood stance) consider
HotLinks a waste of system resources (by the way, I developed this opinion
by asking quite a few developers about HotLinks). You can do the same
thing through decent ARexx ports and some nice scripting. ARexx also has
the advantage of being officially supported by Commodore.
Fonts (ability to use non-Nimbus Q fonts): That's a feature I'd love
to say and I've been telling them that, too! Here's hoping it gets in
there!!!
I hope you (and a lot of other users, as well) realize that we must
balance additional features against the program's physical size _AND_
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