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Steve, I agree that the be, NeXtStep and etc can succeed in the venues you're talking about. I was, as you intimated, speaking from the perspective of success as to general popularity – something I think/thought the Amiga community in general aspired to, certainly something *I* wanted for the Amiga.…
Asha, Bear in mind this is only my opinion, not a pronouncement of fact. I don't claim to have any facts here. 🙂 I made that statement because there is no software for the machine. Without software, it's not useful. If it's not useful, it won't catch on. Software takes…
Yes, the 603 is a bit faster, and a 620 faster yet – but at the price they're asking for this machine, my *guess* is that it's a 601. Ben Williams – For Black Belt Systems World Wide Web Pages: http://www.blackbelt.com/blackbelt/bx_top.html
Paul, A 60 mhz PPC is *very* comparable to a 60 mhz Pentium, IF the PPC has a decently designed cache system attached. Given the above… For applications that are single threaded, in other words that use only processor: Running one program, the 120 mhz pentium would get the job…
Ok, thanks for the note. PNG is planned. Ben Williams – For Black Belt Systems World Wide Web Pages: http://www.blackbelt.com/blackbelt/bx_top.html
#IM 1.6
Message #118651
Lepido, Since we have never advertised IM R/t – ever – I don't know where you're getting that "anymore" from. IM R/t has been an online/word-of-mouth advertised product since day one. And there have been occasional reviews. You'd be amazed at the money we don't spend. 🙂 Ben Williams -…
#IM 1.6
Message #118650
That's good to know. However, ignoring major software developers is nothing short of stupid. I'm certain that many will bail in the time period between when ESCOM decides it's un-busy enough to provide the courtesy of a reply. 🙁 Ben Williams – For Black Belt Systems World Wide Web Pages:…
Oout-a-town
Message #118649
People, I'll be out of town until the 23rd of August; I'm taking my laptop, and with any luck at all I'll be able to watch this section. However… the laptop is a PC (of course) and it's not currently set up to handle AmigaVendor… further, when it IS set…
Not only can't ignore them, probably it's counter-productive. We've got seven active Amiga products, all of which still sell every day… I'm not about to duck and cover on this, if it's irritating to anyone, well, too bad. 🙂 –Ben …via AutoPilot
Stephen, Thanks for the kind words. In WinImages 3.1, there is no rubthrough feature; it is planned, however WinImages is not (yet) as powerful as Imagemaster R/t is in some ways, composition being one of them. –Ben …via AutoPilot
Well you may ask. 🙂 First they changed their name… then they buggered out of the Amiga fora… then someone bought them… "It's a mystery". 🙂
Imagemaster R/t 1.6 contains new compatability modes which should help the rather weak emulations of some the cards – the retina included – perform better. The Retina people told us that if IM R/t could run on all 8-bit displays, the Retina would work. So IM R/t now has a…
We do. (mention the Amiga as part of our heritage) 🙂 –Ben …via AutoPilot
Donald… What phone number??? Ours? Ours is (800) 852-6442, and it will work anywhere in the continental USA, anywhere in Canada, and anywhere in the US possessions… should be fine. Weekdays, 9-5 MST only, of course! –Ben …via AutoPilot
Your old one will do just fine. 🙂 –Ben …via AutoPilot
Er… we sent you the Win 3.1 beta? Er… I'll get that fixed now. I'll tell the crew about the Sliders episodes, too. Thanks for the news! –Ben …via AutoPilot
Betty, yes, you bet. Under Process, Clipping, you can clip *or* strect (scale, or smoothly resize) any shape. Just use the ellipse tool to cut the area you want. –Ben …via AutoPilot
AdPro is a great printer driver. No problem admitting that. :-)))))) Have you tried the "poster printer" in the FKEY addons? It produces pretty spectacular results… only B&W, though. AdPro's got some great color printing tools. btw, IM R/ts scanner driver also alloes preview, view, scan, manipulate prior to save.…
Donald, No need to beg. 🙂 I meant what I said. AdPro is *nothing* compared to Imagemaster. YOu may feel that they complement each other and that's fine. Nontheless it remains a _fact_ that 99% of what you can do with Imagemaster, you cannot do with AdPro. And 99% of…
You are mistaken. 🙂 Sprites originated in custom game machines at arcade vendors – of which Atari was certainly one, but not the first, nor were they typically first with any technology. They mostly modified what was out there. Vector game hardware is a good example – Asteroids, Omega Race……
I *own* the OS9 for the CoCo. But the CoCo is really very, very different, hardware wise, from an SS-50 design. What I'd have to do is write a complete CoCo emulation, every strange graphics mode and so on… then it'd get up and running easy. But the CoCo emulation…
Oh, I can safely tell you it's not a PowerMac. We're not much on Macs around here… in fact, with PhotoShop running under Windows, we sold our 040 Mac. No need for it at all. We do like to keep informed about PhotoShop, though. 🙂 Yes, WinNT is still in…
Time? You remember this line, perhaps? >>> Sleep? We don't need no steenking sleep! Hey, I view it as a sacred task. Without this emulator, Flex might never run again. Now it's got a new lease on life in the Amiga, and I'll probably port the sucker to Windows too,…
They looked stupid
Message #195787
They looked stupid when they release the a600 anyway. 🙁 Because they WERE stupid. –Ben …via AutoPilot
Bart, Windows will multitask if the application is written to do so. As ours are. It is co-operative multitasking, which – compared to the pre-emptive, as the Amiga works – is a very poor method. I *know* it works though, because our application (WinImages) multitasks just fine under Windows. As…
Paul, > What 604 machine and OS are you running? We're running Windows NT. As for what machine, I can't say at this time. –Ben …via AutoPilot
JIm, Thanks, but what I'm looking for is specifically a 6809 OS9 that was compiled for an SWTPC frame – there is a fair amount of hardware compliance among these machines. The disk drivers would be modular, as they are in flex, and that'll make it much easier to get…
Bart, The thing is, Windows *is* a system where all software is designed to handle extended font sets. That's the whole point. Even the dumbest Windows application – in fact, what may be THE dumbest Windows application, "NotePad", handles these fonts perfectly. As does Word, the el supremeo maximum overkill…
Steve, > So… Where did you manage to get a FLEX emulation from? I wrote it, that's where. 🙂 First I wrote the 6809 emulator, because I like to make hardware things with 6809's. Train set controllers, rock saw controllers, ham radio repeater controllers, SSTV demodulators… I like the chip,…
Spec – Specmark, you mean? Heck, I dunno! We don't use benchmarks on the various CPUs… what we do instead is in WinImages, our PC product, there is a "chronograph" function which you can turn on and which will time, exclusive of display time (which can vary widely based on…
Steve, FYI, I have a complete emulation of a FLEX system for the Amiga. Multi disk drives, file transfer utilities, terminal emulation… It's 6809 Flex, but it's certainly a very close relative of those SWTPC machines you're talking about. 🙂 It's really fun to play with. Plus it's got a…
Bart, PC keyboards, like Amiga, Mac and certainly things like the venerable c64 that's wandered in and out of this thread, are all far too limited in keycaps to handle character sets like these. Hangul could produce (grabbing calculator) 14*21*14=4116 distinct characters from it's (14+21=35) basic character components, and that…
Phil, I'm not at liberty to discuss that particular aspect of things, at least not quite yet. You should know about midsummer if all goes well, though. I can say that generally, the PPC 604 is a very, very fast CPU. 🙂 –Ben …via AutoPilot
No… no demo. There are some sample screen shots, etc, in dl6 of Amigavendor. –Ben …via AutoPilot
Whether the Amiga is more or less suited for Chinses use is not dependant on the question of "can you make a font?". It's the question of "How many characters can a font contain?" that decides the issue, as well as "is the capability generally usable in applications?" The Amiga's…
Imagemaster R/t has excellent support for the Opalvision. It has none at all for the Picasso, although if the Picasso people ever get the AGA emulation working 100%, it'll work as an AGA applciation. ImageFX is a great application. AdPro is not. 🙂 –Ben …via AutoPilot
New Imagemaster!
Message #46657
You can contact us at (800) 852-6442 if you're anywhere within the USA or Canada. If you're located outside those areas, call us at (406) 367-5513. We're open 1am-5pm monday to friday. Today – Thursday – we "dissapeared" between 2pm and 5pm because the Power company pulled a "planned outage"…
Phil, Windows NT for PowerPC is fully pre-emptive. And runs great. 🙂 –Ben …via AutoPilot
Alex, The WP for the Ami is "Hangul-Alpha" by Mesa Graphics. Mesa Graphics 909 East 49 1/2 street Austin, TX 78751 512-452-2441 The gentleman to whoom I spoke was Gerre Ganneway. Hope that helps! –Ben …via AutoPilot
Yep – that was the germane issue to which you replied. I stated that the Amiga wasn't appropriate for Chinese use due to font incompatibility, someone else posted in the thread, and you told them I was wrong. I'm not. 🙂 –Ben …via AutoPilot
Yeah, me too. 🙂 –Ben …via AutoPilot
Chinese nation
Message #194683
Alex, I met a fellow on BIX when I was active over there who wrote a minimal Wp for the Amiga. It can handle about 1-2 pages, and produces excellent quality Hangul in both script and block styles. There is an IFF output tool as well, makes some glorious screen…
Windows 95 is about 1/2 way between NT and 3.1 so some things will improve, some will remain weak. The interface is better, but there are a number of other problems remaining – I actually don't know abou thte 16mb limit problem… my hope is, it's gone, as it was…
Well, lets see. For all my net access _except_ the WEB, I use "Internet in a box". Nice email, about as good a newsreader as I've seen except you can't read offline. FWIW, I also bought and extensiuvely tried "Chameleon", and my summary opinion of that software is it couldn't…
Imagemaster is the single most powerful image manipulation application available for the Amiga. It has everything from powerful morphing and warping to tons of preset and adjustable special effects. It's fully capable of most any image editing task most people will even need to do, and it's very inexpensive. That's…
Paul, On the Amiga, I don't know – I just wanted to be sure you knew that the net, the web, is not at fault here. I use a Windows machine exclusively for internet access at this poimt. –Ben …via AutoPilot
James, Our suggested retail price for IM R/t 1.60 is $99.95. You can get it direct from us for 1/2 that, $49.90. If you are a registered user, the upgrade is $25.00. In either case, you need to add shipping charges to that. –Ben …via AutoPilot
Paul, Your problems are _completely_ software related. When I wander the WEB, using either SLIP _or_ PPP, things just march right along. No delays, no problems. I use a 486/dx4/75 & the usual Windows browsers. SLIP is fine (at 14.4kb) as is PPP. –Ben …via AutoPilot
Must be a standard, Paul…. PhotoShop for Windows only _looks_ like it's a windows application… but they are emulating Windows, and it's slow, unreliable and inconsitant. 🙂 And Impulses Imagine looks _just_ like an Amiga under DOS, although it works a darned sight better than Photoshop does. –Ben …via AutoPilot
Well, if he gets into the plasma features he'll find more new things than he can shake a jar of lemon curd at. 🙂 –Ben …via AutoPilot
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