CompuServe Messages

Time to rethink some of your market perceptions… You're accusing Commodore of a lot of negatives that aren't true. Commodore's currently working hard to get a development environment going on MPEG. Take a look at MPEG technology and you'll discover that there's almost no editing/authoring software available. Commodore's working hard to arrange to make a suite of tools available, otherwise they could toss the card on the market now and say "have fun." But MPEG authoring is an entirely new technology, and they're working on getting things set up. As for the DSP, it's coming with a full set of support programs, its own operating system, and AT&T's entire suite of development tools is being ported to the board as we speak. The floating-point DSP3210 is MUCH more sophisticated than the fixed-point Motorola DSPs a number of machines are currently using. You can get specifications from AT&T or through Commodore's developer program. You're completely off-base on the Advanced Chipset machines. They've got entirely new capabilities, but they'll be software compatible with previous machines. (Except for programs that break the rules, and even those will work whenever possible.) If Commodore ever does go to a RISC machine, they'll include 680×0 emulation, I'm sure. Anyway, I don't know where you've gotten much of this information, but you'll be happy to know that your fears are unfounded.