CompuServe Messages

Ben– Hey…I'm not asking BBS to support something that is not shipping…that would be pretty unreasonable (and to no benefit to me, personally). However…EGS is reality, just not shipping. I can't believe that you have no opinion on what is essentially DIG for the Amiga, and will (supposedly) be available in 60 days or less. The GVP rep claimed that EGS will be made available to all takers; he did not mention if the cost would prohibitive. On the other hand, it would seem to me that this is very exciting news, especially to HAM-E and Firecracker users, as well as to the SAGE folks. Something that would allow the user to pick the hardware of choice, and know that any EGS capable application would run on it, up to the capabilities of their hardware. Nice! The hardware was pretty impressive, but it didn't get me excited like the EGS software concept. EGS would provide the Amiga with what it needs, finally. I sincerely hope that its real (not an elaborate demo), I hope that it ships in a timely manner, and I hope that it is easily available to all those vendors that want to support it. We have needed this capability for a long time; although it is a third party standard, it is one that can benefit many Amiga vendors. Jonathan