CompuServe Messages

Woody- I hope that this conversation is finally ended. One of the things that I appreciate about CIS is that although you have to pay for the service, the noise factor is pretty low as compared to other online methods of getting information (usually). I also think that Michael Cullison has some valid points, but that his delivery obscured them. Fact is that the Amiga is showing up as the only computer in a lot of places, especially video shops. The folks that are buying "Toaster WorkStations" and don't know that they are full fledged computers…this is a market, and one with disposable income. I think that a lot of folks would pay extra money to get a "full-fledged" word pro or spreadsheet. One has to wonder where the problem lies in this regard… One for instance is Gold Disk. Many of us know that Pro Draw on the Amiga is pretty good, but does not stack up to equivalent products on other platforms. Now, they are shipping Pro Draw for Windows, which is priced very reasonably, and is supposed to kick butt…why don't we have this on the Amiga, where the product originated? I don't use SoftWood products (yet?) since I found a while ago that ProWrite did exactly what I wanted to do, and I've stuck with it…for now. However, it does not do what I consider to be very basic things…it is frustrating when you cannot get correct intercharacter spacing when using scaleable fonts, or you cannot print a document that includes a title page, since it will throw your page numbering off! This is basic stuff, folks! When are we going to see hyphenation in an Amiga wordpro? There are many small companies making quality software for the PC…an example is Quicksoft, who make a pretty decent, very inexpensive word processor (PC-Write) that, although not the best of executions, has a feature list that pretty much exceeds anything on the Amiga market I am aware of. And, this wordpro is released as shareware! I wonder if the problem is that developers are underestimating their [ MORE ]