CompuServe Messages

Your message is a bit confusing. You seem to hip-hop from some very general remarks about how you feel the Amiga has failed you, but you never really center on the reasons why. I'm sure no one is really offended by your message, so don't worry about that. You're being honest and straightforward about how you feel the situation is, and that's quite ok. My initial gut reaction to your message is to reply with the same formula that the PC world lives on. It seems that in the PC world, if you don't have a 386 or 386SX machine these days, no one will talk to you when you complain. Most PC users take it for granted that if they want to use the latest version of Windows, or play the best and latest games, or use the latest productivity software effectively, they NEED a screaming fast machine. It would likely be naive for us to think that the Amiga environment is totally immune to this reality. If you bought an Amiga 4-5 years ago, unless you have been upgrading it steadily with a true 32bit type accelerator, a fast hard drive, etc etc…then you can't really understand what a good Amiga operating environment is TODAY. The 3000, with 2.04, it's built in de-interlacer, fast hard disk and lots of memory, is a serious turnabout to the 'standard' platform of five years ago (A1000 with two floppy drives). As such, simply adding a CLtd hard disk and accelerating your Amiga to 14Mhz can't really give you an idea of what you can really do with your Amiga TODAY. There's no question that the Amax will perform better on a 3000 than on a 1000. I'm sure your kids like to use your Macs better at your office than an Amax'ed 1000, simply because of the screen flicker. It makes a big difference. So when you say that running the 3000 and Amax would be the ticket for sure, you're pretty much on the mark, methinks.