CompuServe Messages

Recent discoveries about Quarterback and the Quarterback Tools leave me wondering… At the Syndesis office, we have a quite ordinary A2000 system: A CBM '020 board with 2 megs, an ASDGdesigned, Progressive Peripherals-sold 2 meg board, and a GVP SCSI disk controller. Quaterback 4.2 refuses to work in this system, and calls to Central Coast ended in "You've got a P-P memory board? They're buggy. It's not our fault." Also, the 4.2 manual is full of disclaimers of this sort: we don't work with XYZ memory boards, or ABC hard disk controllers, or DEF, etc. Sometimes they blame the third-party manufacturers, sometimes they blame Commodore, sometimes they claim those two parties blame each other – of course, they don't blame their own program. 🙂 As for Quarterback Tools, in places, the manual doesn't match up with the program – the text describes menus that aren't there. It de-fragged some partitions just fine, but we'd never see the screen that says you should reboot – the machine just hung. It also opens a borderless window on the Workbench screen, which is quite strange on an interlaced WB. I hope Central Coast gets this program cleaned up, the Amiga market needs tools like this…