CompuServe Messages

J.Foust- I certainly agree about the mystery of Amiga development. Although I certainly don't expect any product (whatever the price) to be 'perfect for all video needs', I do wonder how much Commodore cares about the "high low-end": 6 months ago, I asked a local dealer's 'video expert' about a frame buffer for the Amiga– he told me there wasn't one available yet- I had to tell him to find out about Mimetics. It was disturbing that he was not aware of some of the Amiga "high-end" products. Could Commodore acknowledge their hardware shortcomings? i.e. "we can't afford to put 24-bit color in the machine, but tell your customers they can buy this board or that board." Rick from Impulse– Looking forward to both. I was curious about the FCC A/B certification also (as mentioned in the NewTek section). Seems like the SuperGen2000S is a "commercial use only" product– does this limit the distribution? You folks know more than I re: this, but is this a concern with Firecracker production? Or is the FCC just slow no matter what? Or just slow with Amiga hardware? Joe– you're right about IBM- I was just guessing. My big gripe with release dates is that seemingly everyone pretends they are real. I am much less bothered by vague dates than constantly changing 'real' dates. Maybe we could get used to the concept of "as soon as possible"? Like, the stuff ships as soon as possible, just like always, and the vendors can say "we think less than a year, but no promises". But, yeah, then there's folks like me calling up at the end of a year asking for product. Maybe the problem is that company target dates (for internal schedules) are used as public release dates, without a 'safety buffer'. So what's the rule of thumb? Take the release date and add 9 months? I should probably be happy I'm on the easy side of the vendor/buyer relationship.