| From: | Oovis |
| Date: | 24 Oct 2000 at 02:23:19 |
| Subject: | Beta testing and installers (was: Nightlong) |
Hello Alan
On 23-Oct-00, you wrote:
> hi,
>
>> It sounds like an apology and clear instructions from ClickBoom could be in
>> order for a start. Do software houses bother to beta test the install
>> routines? Hyperion certainly screwed up HereticII with the ixemul.library
>> stuff, and it sounds like Nightlong is a real hash job too.
>
> its the quality of the beta-testers you are questioning. almost all beta
> testers that I know are very very keen Amiga users... so most of them have
> ixemul already installed as part of their system...so the problem of ixemul
> not being in the system becomnes transparent.
>
Yes, I can see this. Yet whoever wrote the H2 install script would surely have
known that the registration program needed ixemul, and should have put a test
for the existence of the correct version of the library at the start of the
install script, and not allow huge amounts of data to be copied to the hard
drive before the thing fell over... I know hindsight is a wonderful thing,
but you'd think someone would have thought of it.
Likewise, maybe a note along the lines of "Please ensure you have a working
version of RTGMaster running on your system before installing this game" would
save a few tears in the long run? I know many ppl don't RTFM but it would only
take a few bytes in the install script.
> alan
>
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