Author: blass uri
Date: 13:23:44 09/09/98
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On September 09, 1998 at 15:57:59, blass uri wrote: > >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. I think that I made a mistake here. I assumed that the auto232 is the secret autoplayer of fritz5. It does not make sense that 2-3% have not public autoplayer Uri > >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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