This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Yes; and in _InfoWorld_, a weekly newsmagazine for IS managers (primary audience), curmudgeon Robert X. Cringely began a paragraph about the C= buyout with, "And now for some really good news", described the basic understanding, and ended the paragraph with "The Amiga will live again!!" Mr. Cynic
PMFJI here, but: > IBM was producing computers when Commodore was producing typewriters < Actually, I believe you'll find the Commodore KIM listed as the "first manufactured desktop computer"; this was in the early or mid '70s. IBM Mainframes and Commodore typewriters do go back to the late '50s…. Mr.…
#Commodore World??
Message #193771
Hi Jim — Is this true? I recently was offered (through Software Service I think) a subscription to _Commodore_World_, of all the blasted things; I wouldn't have thought twice about it (SS specializes in OLD JUNK) but the ad stated "If you subscribe by May 95 …" Reason I ask…
PMFJI here, but: > What would you have suggested GVP do to save money? Ship defective and > untested products? Take orders (and $$$) for unfinished products? Why not? Microsoft does it all the time (hehehe)…. (Sorry; couldn't resist.) Mr. Cynic
PMFJI here, but: MegageM: Weren't you doing some sort of virtual reality project a while back? The reason I ask is, if it (and the two A1200s it required, as I recall) ever comes back, please tell me whether or not you'll be using the "Virtuality"-type headset (which don't fit…
What anger? All I did — outside of what was admittedly my initial sarcasm — was ask him how he expected to _get_ any artwork from a format he didn't _support_. I'm sorry; I don't have a bridgeboard _or_ an Emplant: I have no way to use his product, _unless_…
Psst — does the Weekly World News know about this yet?… "A 'Creative Amiga'? Hell, we ALL knew that…." Mr. C
> Welcome to the likes of CP/M forums, OS-9 forums, NeXT groups Do you go to their forums and harass them about how "naive" they are? "A 'Creative Amiga'? Hell, we ALL knew that…." Mr. C
All right, I'll play stupid; by your own admission: > Just because I cannot create cross platfrom MM for this machine, should > I ignore it's talented users? So how are you planning to collect material from "it's talented users", if you can't support their computer's format? > Should you,…
> Irrelevent? Interesting, SCALA doesn't think it is 'irrelevent'. Oh, well, SCALA, who are _you_? Nobody who buys Excel at his local CompUSA has ever heard of SCALA…. And, yes, our idiot director of the Ranger Project _still_ insists that "If it isn't Microsoft, it isn't worth anything" … and…
PMFJI here, but: > On the other hand, a RISC based machine with speeds on the order of > several magnitudes, with built-in 24 bit display, and built in Video > Toaster capabilities, at a $2K price point, Yeah, this is the kind of thinking that doomed the Amiga to…
> Windows '95 has been delayed … the Pentium debacle. > Has the entire industry grown to the point that it can't support its own > weight? Naah; it's just that all the B.S. that Microsoot and Intol(erable) have been juggling under the hot lights is starting to melt…. "A…
PMFJI here, but: > the 68060 may be a really great processor, but the world wants RISC. I'd hedge that idea: What "the world" wants is a specific level of performance, and they aren't too concerned with the mechanics; after all, it was always the Amiga's custom ASICs, rather than…
#Elvis
Message #179627
> Is that possible? Marion, around here I wouldn't be surprised if the third and fourth bidders were Elvis and Darth Vader…. "A 'Creative Amiga'? Hell, we ALL knew that…." Mr. C
Aah, he probably used the infamous CI$ "Find Art" command, and just broadsided every forum that turned up. But that's okay: I sent him a letter, a BIT more vitriolic than yours, using the infamous AutoPilot's "Save as CMail" feature (hehehe)….
ROTFLMAO!!!! "A 'Creative Amiga'? Hell, we ALL knew that…." Mr. C
Me? Denial? I'M NOT IN DENIAL!!!! (I'm sorry: Was this a ten-minute argument, or …?) "A 'Creative Amiga'? Hell, we ALL knew that…." Mr. C
Well…. The PC _might_ do all right in video, if the Kubota Action Graphics card comes down in price (and _if_ it cooperates with OS/2)…. "With the cover off, a 9-card daughterboard fits…." Mr. C
#AS/400
Message #178848
PMFJI here, but: > other "most elegant computer" . . . the AS/400 You mean the one that IBM has decided to stop manufacturing because it no longer fits into their business plan? 😉 "A 'Creative Amiga'? Hell, we ALL knew that…." Mr. C
Duncan: There is a current "battle" going on in the Bahamian courts (it's a long story) over who will end up with the Amiga technology and, presumably, start producing the computers again; at the moment the two bidders are Creative Equipment Inc. of Miami (the former US distributor), and David…
Hey, I _like_ the picture of the A1000! (Oh, the good old days….) It would've been neater if the picture had the "disk-in-hand" final Kickstart screen; I wonder how many cable-TV viewers would have said, "Hmm; I've seen that image before…" (like when the Prevue Guide channel crashed, hehehe). "A…
> We sure won't deny we have them, though. :^) What, you're not changing your company name to Elastic Suspenders and proclaiming that Windoze is your only platform? (hehehe) "A 'Creative Amiga'? Hell, we ALL knew that…." Mr. C
PMFJI here: >I'd bet there are a number of PeeCeers who are discovering things >like Caligari trueSpace, Imagine, LightWave etc and think they are new. And it sure don't help when Elastic Reality effectively denies their original ASDG MorphPlus designation, or Caligari uses Paul Safr's "Cybernetic Assassin" (done on an…
And (2) more-so than (1); I work for a company that builds communica- tions systems, and we've just bought our second SMD machine (a HUGE Pana-Sert) … and we DIDN'T get it for "higher parts density"…. "A 'Creative Amiga'? Hell, we ALL knew that…." Mr. C
PMFJI here: That "PC world" you mentioned? Would that be the same PC world that has ISA, EISA, VESA, MCA, and PCI busses? "A 'Creative Amiga'? Hell, we ALL knew that…." Mr. C
PMFJI here, but: The "gumption" to "crack the videogame market"? I take it you've never heard of the CD32…. "The problem with owning an Amiga is that it lets you think." Mr. C
>it is egotistic to believe that only the Commodore engineers could move Amiga projects forward But then, we ALL know that Paul H. was the cornerstone on which the Amiga foundation was laid, don't we?… "The problem with owning an Amiga is that it lets you think." Mr. C
PMFJI here, but: "Amiga technology uses chip processes that are out of date." Unless you're referring to the manufacturing processes which are inconsequential, I have to ask: Are you kidding? Fast as a Pentium is, strong as OS/2 is, good as SVGA is, to date the PC world _still_ hasn't…
Writing to him's easy enough, with our Internet mail-link; his address is "cringe@infoworld.com" (without the quote marks). Don't expect a lot of sympathy (or one of his "infamous" coffee mugs either)…. "Amiga–Si!! Commodore–%$#@*&!!!" Mr. C
Yeah, I wrote him an Email last week asking him to try to find out what's going on down in the Bahamas; either he didn't look very hard, or else now HE'S under a "non-disclosure agreement"…. Didja also happen to notice that Stewart Alsop managed to AGAIN mention OS/2 and…
>I want my Amiga back… Oh, no; you mean it's been stolen AGAIN?? 😉 Mr. C (Amiga: Muerte O Suerte?)
… Or that big rail-gun-phaser on Admiral Riker's Enterprise…. Mr. C (Amiga: Muerte O Suerte?)
Okay, I'll buy the "overworked programmers" part (I hope they get the real-time clock fixed soon, as well as the screen problems); now, who do I blame for the "Cyberflights" video, which was hawked in _VRLI_Times_ as "produced using eight Amiga 4000 computers", and when I get the tape, the…
#Still in Business
Message #149316
How many candles do you need for this ceremony?… Mr. C (Amiga: Muerte O Suerte?)
Maybe you'd better do a nose count on your Raptors (hehehe)…. Mr. C (Amiga: Muerte O Suerte?)
#Copy protection?
Message #149313
Yeah, I didn't think I had a grip on it…. We had some sort of "announcement" at work involving the notion that anyone who had DoubleSpace on their hard drive had to take it off (which I didn't understand because I thought the Stac/MS judgement only involved future sales); the…
#Copy protection?
Message #149312
"Gould and Mehdi are looking for work"? How do you know this? I'll agree with you on the idea of somebody "de-dongling" your office computer, and how that could be a royal pain in the @ss; that's a different argument (dongle security), which could also be solved with a "dongle…
You could always add FLI support to the CD32 disk (hehehe)…. Count me in on an Amiga CD too; for the way you guys treated us Amiga owners with DS 5.0, I was starting to wonder if VRLI still acknowledged our existance…. Mr. C (Amiga: Muerte O Suerte?)
Well, I couldn't make a whole lot of sense out of it anyway…. Mr. C (Amiga: Muerte O Suerte?)
Stac lost a counter-suit from MicroSoft over disassembling code; and it was their own code they disassembled out of MicroSoft's product (which was why they won _their_ suit). Or did I misinterpret that ruling? Mr. C (Amiga: Muerte O Suerte?)
About Will Rogers…. It's also interesting to note that if Will Rogers _had_ met Bill Clinton, he would have liked him; and just as likely thereafter taken political potshots at him that would make a typical Leno monologue look really poor. The line, guys, is "I never MET a man…
>sales last year were 1.7% of the computer market It wouldn't have made a phenomenal difference, true, but how much higher do you think that would have been if Commodire had been able to meet the demand for the product? Having more demand than capacity is a situation a LOT…
Paul, you're being romantic about it: Businesses don't think in terms of "defeat" and "victory"; they think in terms of "profit" and "loss". Whether or not they are actually thinking of doing so, there is no logical business reason why they might not abandon the CD-i for the CD32 (or…
Has there ever been a company that _didn't_ plan (or at least expect) to lose money in the beginning? Mr. C (Amiga: Muerte O Suerte?)
One could argue that MicroSoft doesn't "make" anything either. Mr. C (Amiga: Muerte O Suerte?)
No flame intended, but there's plenty of reason to suspect "Amiga" and "Colt" could be interchangeable terms in the reporter's mind; and, actually, anyone who is simply restating Commodore's Official Position is only telling the public what Commodore wants them to hear, no?… Mr. C (Amiga: Muerte O Suerte?)
I'll believe it when I see it; and I'll also believe it has Sony's full support when I see it outlive their portable CD-ROM player…. Mr. C (Amiga: Muerte O Suerte?)
"Self-involute up their …" Can you _do_ that without a license?… *-b Mr. C (Amiga: Muerte O Suerte?)
Actually the press in general, if I may paraphrase from your post, "more and more celebrate celebrity". They didn't do this by choice; people used to WANT hard news (from which came "responsible journalism"). And then the hard news got too hard to take, and people decided they wanted fluff…
Mike Royko is permanently embalmed in Billy Goat's Tavern…. (Oops, I meant "perfectly preserved"….) (Maybe it's just "pickled"?…) Mr. C (Amiga: Muerte O Suerte?)
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