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#Amiga PAR and 3.1 Field

    11-Oct-94 22:23:11
Fm: Stan Kalisher (Impulse) 76004,1767
To: Pete Gould 71240,2152
Pete, I dont want this thing to denegrate to a name calling situation, but, I can assure that DPS could have done the whole thing differently, and to assume that there is something special about the hard drive connected to the PAR is wrong,. It could be anything they wanted it to be. The only reason they use this drive is so that they can get a constant speed playback, from an unfragmented file format that they control, sorta a simple way to attack an even simpler problem. We have done the same thing but we dealt with the entire problem. I am sure that you are happy with the PAR and I hope that it makes you lots of money, however I must admit that we did approach the problem with a different and more productive approach. Never-the-less I guess that the real lesson to be learned here is a simple one, check it out before you assume that everyting is perfect. 3.1 is an iterim program, the constant update program is also going to be trying some new things out on the code of Imagine, it is up to you to beat the hell out of it so that we find any and all bugs before we get to Imagine 4.0. This is why the upgrade price is so low, we want to let you have feedback, and input to the development process. In a small way, Imagine has been the domain of Impulse, we have made it for ourselves, it became apparent that Imagine no longer belongs to us, it is your code now, you make money with it, pay bills with it and do other great things that we never hear about until it does not do what you want it to do. We are listening and we are glad that you are talking, together we are going to make Imagine….. the best that it can be. Mike