From: guymacon@deltanet.com (Guy Macon)
Subject: Re: 3D game engine for PB?
 
In article , bob@powerbasic.com (Bob Zale) 
wrote:
>
>Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
>> was already approaching that of MASM's. Now it's even bigger and still
>> I haven't even heard a 'maybe' as to a fix.
>
>
>That's very interesting!  Are you sure that you've inquired of the right
>person at "NASM INTERNATIONAL"?  Surely they must be mildly interested
>in compatibility with the real world of commercial software, aren't
>they?  It just seems you wouldn't get very far asking them for a "BUG
>FIX" to their product "NASM", by repeating it over and over and over and
>over and over and over here in the PowerBASIC Group.  I'd be willing to
>bet that some folks here are getting mighty tired of your continuous
>complaints.  I know I am.
>
>We tried very hard to be courteous to you the first time you asked about
>it, months ago.  The second, third, fourth, and fifth time, too.  And
>many more times after that, as well.  But we can not re-write our
>compiler just to accomodate a workaround for a bug in a shareware
>product, when only 3 or 4 of our customers care about it.  That would be
>commercial suicide, and it simply won't happen.  If we did that
>regularly, we'd be out of business overnight, and there would be no
>PowerBASIC compiler at all.  Is that your real goal?
>
>Sir, we do offer application technical support for a fee.  If you would
>like PowerBASIC to write specific code for you, that is available, even
>code to workaround another's bugs.  But there is a charge.  You can
>discuss it Monday by telephone at 408.659.8000.  Unfortunately, the
>purchase of a single shrink-wrap software package does not entitle you
>to an unlimited, no-cost, consulting contract for life.  I must say that
>your notion that it should is just slightly bizarre.  No insult or harm
>was intended, it's just a simple matter of fact.
>
>Regards,
>
>Bob Zale
>PowerBASIC Inc.
 
Well said, sir!  Like it or not, MASM is the standard, and it seems
that PB works well with MASM.  If NASM doesn't work well with
PowerBasic, it is NASM that should do the changing.  This works both
ways.  If I were to say "Gee, Mr. Zale, I just discovered that PB/DOS
makes files that I cannot edit with EDIT that comes with MS-DOS 6.22!"
(A made up example; they work fine together)  I would expect you to
say "Oops! EDIT is the standard ASCII text editor in DOS.  We will fix
PB ASAP."  I would *NOT* expect you to say "Well, Microsoft screwed
up, so they should recode EDIT to work with PB!"  The tail doesn't wag
the dog.
 
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