#Imagine V2.0 Upgrade?
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Upgrade Imagine 2.0?
I have Imagine 1.1 and have not yet received the newsletter mentioned here
regarding the upgrade availability for V2.0. I would like very much to
order it. Woule someone be good enough to post what Impulse asks for the
upgrade and whether or not manual covers, original disks etc. must be sent
in to qualify for the upgrade?
Many thanks,
George Roland
George, I'm a registered user of Imagine 1.1. I called Impulse, told them I
was a registered user and wanted to upgrade. All they wanted was my credit
card number and address. I ordered it last week before it was ready to
ship. It costs $100.00.
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Me Too!
No presents at my doorstep yet. Isn't Christmas great when you can buy your
own?
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I had really hoped some one would have recived by now. But with Christmas
and all I under stand My UPS guy usualy comes at about noon, for the last
two weeks he shows up at 5:30 or 6pm
Happy Holidays Brad Hayes
I too, am supposedly a registered user. There was no registration in the
box when I bought it at AmiExpo in Oct 1990. They did find me for the 0.9
t0 1.0 and 1.10 updates. I was waiting to receive the notice for 2.0 but
didn't realize it was a "self-service" notification process. I've never
gotten this much talked about Impulse news letter either. Kinda wonder
about their customer and product registration files…
wmc
I received Impulse's newsletter for one year after I bought Turbosilver and
then the newsletters stopped coming. If it wasn't for compuserve, I
wouldn't even have known about 2.0. I jumped on the phone as soon as
someone mentioned a release date. As it turned out, even though I was
preordering it, they already had a thousand orders.
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I received my newsletter, I assume because I sent in my registration card
when I purchased Imagine.
Joe,
I asked them about the registration and they said the form I filled out at
Expo to get my .9 to 1.0 upgrade was sufficient.?!?!
wmc
Wayne,
I'm in the same boat as a registered user up to Imagine 1.10. I haven't
heard anything. Is the V2.0 Upgrade worth it? Take Care, Barry
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Barry,
Don't know – aint got it yet!
BTW I called Impulse and it seems theylost me from the registered user
file. Mayhaps you'd best call to see if you are in the same boat.
wmc
I also never heard a peep from Impulse.I called em Friday last and ordered
2.0 If I don't recieve it sometime next week I'll be calling Again
Peter, hang in there! I just received my 2.0 upgrade on Thursday, so they
are still trickling out! (to be fair, I bet that there were a LOT of
upgrades, and that they are being mailed out pretty quickly)
First impression is good. Seems faster and more responsive, to start. Uses
the FireCracker24 display (at last!). Neat (?) Gold lettering on the
gadgets and menus (but heck, I thought I needed to get glasses when I first
looked at the menus…. putting embossing in menu text seems a bit too
much, and BLURRRRRY) 🙂
Manual seems better. Won't really know till you have to USE it a lot, you
know what I mean. But a bad biggie (to me) is…..
… NO INDEX!. I swear that they must feel that tradition demands that
they don't put an index in their manual. Every blinking time some nice
user has to provide one later on. (if they'd just set the manual with
AmigaTeX they could have had the sweetest, most accurate index,
automatically! — oh well)
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John, there is a complete index in my manual. It's before the appendixes
and just after page 240.
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Bruce, YOUR'RE RIGHT! I apologize!
You know, a friend and I both used 2.0 for about two hours the eve before,
and were perusing the manual the whole time. Before I posted the note I
double checked, by leafing through the manual, but I just missed it. Now I
see it.
BTW, as I posted earlier, the manual looks pretty nice. You actually
documented the config file stuff. Thanks. I wondered who wrote the
manual. You should be listed in it as the author, I'd think?
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John,
I'd lay money that Mike Halvorsen wrote the bulk of the manual. It has
the same wandering, wordy style that I don't mind in newsletters, but tire
of quickly in a user manual. Also, he tends to use commas where periods are
needed. I wish he'd just have an editor go over it.
But Hey! It's a manual!! I'm learning quite a bit going through it, and
playing around with all the new features. I love having QuickDraw in all
the editors, having Quickrender, having the buttons along the bottom
(though I had to tone down the intensity to keep from going blind). I like
having the Action editor split out. I DON'T like how incomplete the Index
is, but at least there is one, for some of the things I've wanted to look
up. I wish SetZone would have been put back in, but I'm happy that X-Specs
made it back. If I have to sit through a picture when it loads, the new one
is more acceptable. Of course, the best part is that it seems faster to me,
though since I recently got a 2620, I may be confused. What do you think?
(OK, i have to say that I hate the binding on the manaul, too) But all in
all, I love the additions, many of which I probably haven't even found yet.
Ooh! And what about that brush-wrap positioning fix? I did the deliberate
space-off-by-one-pixel and goofed my wrap. I tried it again without doing
anything and it worked! Yay!
Ya mean I don't have to move my Brushes around anymore to get em to wrap
Correctly?Awesome
Thanx for info on 2.0 I HOPE to have it sometime this week as I ordered it
2 Fridays ago.BTW in this months Amiga World 1 of the 040 accelerators is
giving FREE copies of Imagine 2.0 to purchasers of the Card
I haven't gotten anything from Impulse about Imagine 2.0 either.
I'm in the same boat as you.No newsletter,no nothing