CompuServe Messages

Why Ben–are you off your normal drugs or something? That was probably one of the kindest messages you have left me in my three years here. 🙂 I want Speech back–but I want it back using the DSP. I think the Amiga voice was cool back in 1985, but it ought to be considerably better today–seven years later. On networking, I am hoping that Commodore will add NSF server capability to their TCP/IP package as well as consider bringing Pathworks to the Amiga. Since we already have a good DECNet implementation it might not be that difficult to bring Pathworks in on top of it, since it does rely on DECnet. On the laptop idea. Normally I don't agree with a single line of text the "Bandito" writes. However this month's Amazing Computing had a statement from him that made so much sense that I could not believe he wrote it. He said that Commodore needs to produce an AGA laptop so that we can have portable multimedia stations. That is exactly dead-on, especially if these systems had the 'video' capability that all Amigas have had from day one. Imagine this if you will. Go to a customer with a hot SCALA presentation, plug into the company's television or multimedia conference room with your AGA machine. Wow.. instant sale. We use A600s for this purpose now, but a laptop unit would work much much better and would sell very well. CDROM–we agree completely. Commodore has to set the standard. Even if they can't make a CDTV compatible unit (though I do not see why they can't) they need to have CDROM, and they needed it yesterday. Commodore has this ad that says "The Amiga 4000–The most Powerful Multimedia Computer ever built by Commodore—or anyone else". A great ad, unfortunately when I am asked the first quesiton about CDROM. I end up talking about the nice 3rd party drives, and how you need to add a SCSI card. You get the picture. Cornerturning, is this simply a software issue? PhotoCD, I generally grant that this is a 'gee whiz' technology. However <continued>