CompuServe Messages

Juan, hey, it's nice to be remembered! I don't know how long I've been away from CIS but it must have been MONTHS! Yeah, the MERLIN … :^)) :^(( :^| … etc. It's really not _that_ bad, isn't it? Quite good, actually, but the intuition emulation is still too slow – I'd expected it to be at least as fast as my accelerated A2000, but so far they only did betas up to v1.52, and that's dated back October/November 1993! There are many MERLIN users here in Germany feeling very bad about their purchase, and even I (of the neverending patience) am beginning to feel bad about it off and on. But they have announced _the_ _final_ _release_ version of it (v2.x) by end of February (? – might have been March.. oh, well) which they say is to finally utilize MERLINS super fast blitter and thus be _at least_ 4 times faster than, for example PICASSO II's… if only we could believe them this time… I don't think a single company has fooled their customers more than X-Pert, not necessarily the manufacturers, they deliver MERLINs, the new realtime digitizer board is out and it's _awesome_! Also, they have a new MTV (Merlin TV) out – external box, connects to digitizer, controlled from Workbench, stereo, videotext decoder, … I (and many many others) would have preferred to have a working, stable and fast intuition emulation first and then have the 'gimmicks' added, but X-Pert decided against… We'll see what comes next… Ciao, // Chris coming in from Germany \X/ on AutoPilot 1.06………..