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Bill Yanaire
I'm currently running the latest version of GirlFriend and I have been
having some problems lately. I have been running the same version of
DrinkingBuddies 1.0 forever as my primary application, and all the
Girlfriend releases I have tried have always conflicted with it. I hear that
Drinking Buddies runs fine as long as Girlfriend is ran in background mode
and the sound is turned off.
Unfortunately, I can't find the switch to turn the sound off. Therefore, I
have to run both of them separately. Girlfriend also seems to have a problem
coexisting with my Golf program, often trying to abort Golf with some form
of timing incompatibilities.
I probably should have stayed with Girlfriend 1.0, but I thought I might see
better performance from GirlFriend 2.0. After months of conflicts and other
problems, I consulted a friend who has had experience with Girlfriend 2.0.
He said I probably didn't have enough cache to run Girlfriend 2.0 and
eventually it would require a Token Ring to run properly. He was right, as
soon as I purged my cache, and realized that no one in their right mind is
installing new token rings, Girlfriend 2.0 uninstalled itself.
Shortly after that, I installed Girlfriend 3.0 beta. Unfortunately, there
was a bug in the program and the first time I used it, it gave me a virus. I
had to clean out my whole system and shut down for a while. I very
cautiously upgraded to Girlfriend 4.0. This time I used SCSI probe first and
also installed a virus protection program. It worked okay for a while until
I discovered that GirlFriend 1.0 was still in my system. I tried running
Girlfriend 1.0 again with Girlfriend 4.0 still installed, but Girlfriend 4.0
has a feature I didn't know about that automatically senses the presence of
any other version of Girlfriend and communicates with it in some way. This
results in the immediate removal of both versions.
The version I have now works pretty well, but there are still some problems.
Like all versions of GirlFriend, it is written in some obscure language I
can't understand, much less reprogram. Frankly, I think there is too much
attention paid to the look and feel rather than the desired functionality.
Also, to get the best connections with your hardware, you usually have to
use gold-plated contacts and I have never liked how GirlFriend is
"object-oriented."
A year ago a friend of mine upgraded his version of Girlfriend to
GirlFriendPlus 1.0, which is a Terminate and Stay Resident version of
GirlFriend. He discovered that GirlFriendPlus 1.0 expires within a year if
you don't upgrade to Fiance 1.0. So he did, but soon after that, he had to
upgrade to Wife 1.0, which he describes as a huge resource hog. It has taken
up all his space: He can't load anything else. One of the primary reasons he
decided to go with Wife 1.0 was because it supposedly came bundled with a
feature called FreeSex Plus.
Well, it turns out the resource requirements of Wife 1.0 sometimes prohibits
access to FreeSexPlus, particularly the new Plug-ins he wanted to try. On
top of that, Wife 1.0 must be running on a well warmed-up system before he
can do anything. Although he did not ask for it, Wife 1.0 came with
MotherInLaw which has an automatic pop-up feature he can't turn off. I told
him to trying installing Mistress 1.0, but he said he heard if you try to
run it without first uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney
files before uninstalling itself. Then Mistress 1.0 won't install because of
insufficient resources.
P.S. Watch out for the K-I-D-S virus because they have an insatiable
appetite for memory and CPU time over and above everything else above.
having some problems lately. I have been running the same version of
DrinkingBuddies 1.0 forever as my primary application, and all the
Girlfriend releases I have tried have always conflicted with it. I hear that
Drinking Buddies runs fine as long as Girlfriend is ran in background mode
and the sound is turned off.
Unfortunately, I can't find the switch to turn the sound off. Therefore, I
have to run both of them separately. Girlfriend also seems to have a problem
coexisting with my Golf program, often trying to abort Golf with some form
of timing incompatibilities.
I probably should have stayed with Girlfriend 1.0, but I thought I might see
better performance from GirlFriend 2.0. After months of conflicts and other
problems, I consulted a friend who has had experience with Girlfriend 2.0.
He said I probably didn't have enough cache to run Girlfriend 2.0 and
eventually it would require a Token Ring to run properly. He was right, as
soon as I purged my cache, and realized that no one in their right mind is
installing new token rings, Girlfriend 2.0 uninstalled itself.
Shortly after that, I installed Girlfriend 3.0 beta. Unfortunately, there
was a bug in the program and the first time I used it, it gave me a virus. I
had to clean out my whole system and shut down for a while. I very
cautiously upgraded to Girlfriend 4.0. This time I used SCSI probe first and
also installed a virus protection program. It worked okay for a while until
I discovered that GirlFriend 1.0 was still in my system. I tried running
Girlfriend 1.0 again with Girlfriend 4.0 still installed, but Girlfriend 4.0
has a feature I didn't know about that automatically senses the presence of
any other version of Girlfriend and communicates with it in some way. This
results in the immediate removal of both versions.
The version I have now works pretty well, but there are still some problems.
Like all versions of GirlFriend, it is written in some obscure language I
can't understand, much less reprogram. Frankly, I think there is too much
attention paid to the look and feel rather than the desired functionality.
Also, to get the best connections with your hardware, you usually have to
use gold-plated contacts and I have never liked how GirlFriend is
"object-oriented."
A year ago a friend of mine upgraded his version of Girlfriend to
GirlFriendPlus 1.0, which is a Terminate and Stay Resident version of
GirlFriend. He discovered that GirlFriendPlus 1.0 expires within a year if
you don't upgrade to Fiance 1.0. So he did, but soon after that, he had to
upgrade to Wife 1.0, which he describes as a huge resource hog. It has taken
up all his space: He can't load anything else. One of the primary reasons he
decided to go with Wife 1.0 was because it supposedly came bundled with a
feature called FreeSex Plus.
Well, it turns out the resource requirements of Wife 1.0 sometimes prohibits
access to FreeSexPlus, particularly the new Plug-ins he wanted to try. On
top of that, Wife 1.0 must be running on a well warmed-up system before he
can do anything. Although he did not ask for it, Wife 1.0 came with
MotherInLaw which has an automatic pop-up feature he can't turn off. I told
him to trying installing Mistress 1.0, but he said he heard if you try to
run it without first uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney
files before uninstalling itself. Then Mistress 1.0 won't install because of
insufficient resources.
P.S. Watch out for the K-I-D-S virus because they have an insatiable
appetite for memory and CPU time over and above everything else above.