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Posted by Graham Smith
Oct 19, 2006 at 04:35 PM
Hugh
>>Why is IM better than Liquid Story
>Binder for fiction writing?
>Ha! ;>) I like elements of both (on limited
>acquaintance). However…
Thanks Hugh, that is an interesting and useful comparison.
I had just downloaded LSB and rather liked it, but your comments give me useful insights into evaluating it.
Graham
Posted by Hugh Pile
Oct 20, 2006 at 01:02 PM
Graham Smith wrote:
>Hugh
>
>>>Why is IM better than Liquid Story
>>Binder for fiction writing?
>
>>Ha! ;>) I
>like elements of both (on limited
>>acquaintance). However…
>
>Thanks Hugh, that
>is an interesting and useful comparison.
>
>I had just downloaded LSB and rather liked
>it, but your comments give me useful insights into evaluating it.
>
>Graham
Graham
I would be interested to hear what you think.
Hugh
Posted by Cassius
Oct 27, 2006 at 06:38 AM
While Idea Mason looks very interesting and the price appears quite reasonable, I suspect that many of us don’t have the required software and maybe not the required hardware.
For example, it requires: Win XP; Microsoft Office® XP (2002) or later edition, or Microsoft Works® Suite 2002 or later edition; and a screen resolution of 1024x768 or higher resolution with 16-bit color.
Now, for many of us, the total cost is not so reasonable.
Posted by David Dunham
Oct 27, 2006 at 03:08 PM
Many businesses replace hardware on a 3-4 year cycle, so requiring 4 year old software doesn’t seem that terrible.
I confess my own Opal outliner requires a version of Mac OS X that’s less than 2 years old, so I may be a little biased. My logic was that it was a lot easier writing robust software when you can rely on newer OS features, and that the bulk of sales, for me and other publishers, was to the latest release. That doesn’t help the people who can’t afford the upgrade, don’t want to take the risk of changing what works perfectly well, or who’d need new hardware. (In my case I have a machine that doesn’t have enough free disk space to upgrade.)
Posted by Franz Grieser
Oct 28, 2006 at 12:46 PM
Cassius
>While Idea Mason looks very interesting and the price appears quite reasonable, I
>suspect that many of us don’t have the required software and maybe not the required
>hardware.
>
>For example, it requires: Win XP; Microsoft Office® XP (2002) or later
>edition, or Microsoft Works® Suite 2002 or later edition; and a screen resolution of
>1024x768 or higher resolution with 16-bit color.
Are you serious? At least in Germany, you would have had to try hard to find a Windows PC in the last 4-5 years that does not fit the requirements (including the need for Word).
Franz