Author: blass uri
Date: 12:57:59 09/09/98
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On September 09, 1998 at 15:01:41, Keith Ian Price wrote: >On September 09, 1998 at 13:52:47, Moritz Berger wrote: > > >>I feel very sad because I was already looking forward to do testing with Rebel >>10 on the autoplayer vs. assorted opponents. >> >>No new features in Rebel 10 will be good enough to make up for this >diminishment >>of the joy I take in testing computer programs. - As far as I am concerned, I >>will never ever do manual testing against other programs on tournament level >>(where Rebel excels!), if only for the reason that I don't have that much time >>to throw away. >> >> >>Does anybody actually like the political decision to remove auto232 support? >>Please speak up, maybe we can stop this nonsense! (sorry for the strong words, >>but I simply don't get it). >> >> >>Moritz > >I will not be buying Rebel 10, because of the loss of the autoplayer support. I >do not like the loss of TASCboard support either, but since TASC has never >helped anyone work with their board, I can understand it. But Rebel 9 will be my >last Rebel until autoplayer support is put back in. Rebel 9 is far stronger than >I am, and so I do not need to upgrade to play a stronger program. The only >reason I have to upgrade is to play it against other programs, and I do not have >the time to do this manually, either. Removing features is not a way to get >people to upgrade. I agree that Removing features is not a way to get people to upgrade but I do not think it is important in this case because I understood that the auto232 is not public. How many people in the world have the auto232? If the answer is less than 100 then the number of customers effected by this not to buy Rebel is not significant. Uri > >Only one customer, but... > >kp
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