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Development on CD32

    31-Aug-93 13:58:39
Fm: Andrew Porter 72134,2050
To: Ron Legro 75136,2066
Ron, Thank you for your comments, I'll pass them along to my partner. I picked up Helm at the competitive upgrade price of $89 although I haven't done anything with it yet. I expect it will likely be my development application (assuming it runs as advertised) because of the future Windoz support. Naturally, my partner is very concerned about investing $$$ in the Amiga platform. He is aware of it's development friendly features and cost effectiveness but the support (or lack of it), future availability and the quality of development products is a concern, not to mention if CD32 will take off at all. But, all told, purchasing multimedia develoment products for the Amiga ends up being about 10-20% less expensive, approximately, which is a real incentive. Do you know of anyone using CanDo for product development? What do you think of textbased authoring packages such as the Director (which I have used but may now be defuncted??) and Amos? Would they run faster or more efficiently in a real world situation? The problem with the Director is it's data handling features. It isn't easy to develop a database. Andrew