Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 16:53:59 10/29/99
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On October 29, 1999 at 16:01:19, pete wrote: >nice one :=) > >but from the commercial programmer's view who wants to earn money with it I am >sometimes surprised that features that are actually _there_ are not made clear a >little better to the public . > >i.e. I noticed that quite a few people who talk about century as being a windows >prog or not don't really care about it at all ( multi-tasking and stuff like >that ) ; they simply want to be able to start the prog at full strength under >windows95/98 , use their mouse , no rebooting with boot-disks etc. , without >having to use sophisticated tricks > >and rebel supports all this although it is not easy to find it in the manual . >You simply have to create your own shortcut ; explained in the Online Manual on >the CD ; Appendix B ( and this is the mistake as : who reads appendixes ?? ) , B >. "Rebel Calling Parameters" > >For example on a PC with 128 MB RAM simply create a shortcut : > >C:\Century\Rebel.exe S W9 > >and you have your rebel with an impressive 100 MB Hash , you can use your mouse >as usual and do all the things you are used to do with it , open the nice menus >etc . etc . > >In comparison ; on a P233 with 32MB RAM with Fritz 6 you will have 4 MB for Hash >where rebel will work without problems with 13MB . > >I am quite sure that a lot of people who ask for rebel being a "real" windows >prog are just asking for something that is already there ... > >pete Rebel programs have been fine products (Except Rebel 7) But today we have all grown lazy, and unless I can click an install button have nice little icon shortcuts on my screen, click on them have the program load up nice and easy with a pretty looking windows interface. Then frankly it is just not good enough anymore. I hate DOS programs, I hate the way the mouse controls with DOS. And I hate the little click my monitor aways makes when using dos programs. The only other time it ever does that is when it goes into standby mode. When Wondows Rebel finally comes out I will buy it. But No more DOS for me. This is not just Rebel, This includes any DOS program. I must say I still use Rebel 10, simply cause I have set it up so it works fine, and know how to use the keyboard faster than the crappy mouse control to get things done in it.
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