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    14-Aug-94 21:41:30
Sb: #42840-#Opalvision
Fm: Michael Miloff 72213,105
To: Andrew Porter 72134,2050
Hi Andrew, Just got the IICC newsletter. It was excellent. It seems to have more substance than a few issues ago. In case you are interested, there were a lot of blank pages in my fax. I played around with toolbook a long time ago. I liked the metaphor, but it seemed awfully slow. In fact, what pushed me to getting an AMIGA was how painfully slow it was to move around complex images in IBM. I have a 486DX 66 with a pretty fast hard drive and 16MB RAM and using ASTOUND and COMPEL, it was really difficult getting any zip to moving images around. SCALA was far superior. I have an order in for the Flyer but I am admittedly nervous and even having some second thoughts if it is not better to revert back to the IBM. The other issue I am thinking about is how best to boost rendering speed. Warp engine or something else, I guess is the question. Now that LW is on IBM, I am wondering how fast the rendering speed will be compared to an AMIGA. Any ideas? I don't have a CD ROM project. Rather, Hugh and I have talked about getting one. I have lots of ideas, of course, and a number of contacts. So, I want to carefully pick which one I do for a really low price, because it has to work well as a demo. Till the next correspondence. Michael