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Subject: Re: Hiarcs 6.0 for the Mac.

Author: HIARCS MacTeam

Date: 11:11:03 12/11/97

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On December 10, 1997 at 17:08:44, William Dozier wrote:

>Greetings to all:How maney of you feel that you have got rip off by the
>people who put Hiarcs 6.0 for the Mac. And im dead seriouse. Why?
>because the new ppc version is no better than the 1.0 version, and

Version 1.0 used version 4.0 of the HIARCS engine, the latest version
used 6.0. This alone should give an increase in speed. Version
6.0 also has a PPC version which is where the real strength increase is.

>seemed to be at same speed as the old version. It doesnt seemed to
>recalled anything after playing 20 hrs games, black or white. How do you
>use the data base file? Infact o got better performance out of the 68k
>version, it doesnt recalled its past mistakes. Im kind of ticked off
>because i dont think im getting my moneys worth. Perhps you guys got
>money to throw away, i dont, especially when a product is not what its
>suppose to be. And the other problems is that Hiarcs for the Mac never
>is available, and the email always come back. I feel that i gave them my

I have not received mail from you. I get many e-mails each day
so I don't know what e-mail address you are using !?

>money for the name Hiarcs, the quality is down hill. So please if anyone
>can check the old and new product and please let me know if indeed i got
>rip off or i dont know what im doing as far as Hiarcs is concern.

What do you want people to check - you have made your opinion very
clear. You could have asked either Mark (mark@acc-ltd.demon.co.uk)
or myself directly if you thought you were doing something wrong.

I personally don't think your comments are fair - but I wouldn't
would I.

>
>Ps. This probabley will be the last time i will buy anything from these
>guys. There not going to get rich off of me.
>

I am sorry to hear that ! If you had e-mailed us directly we
could have helped you sooner (we also have two web sites, one
with a Mac FAQ)

>Have a nice day you guys./ Resectfully/popeye

Clive



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