CompuServe Messages

Having "virtually" millions of IM users would be a good thing and your school could then become fiscally sound <grin>. I've heard more than once that if an Amiga product sold over 100,000 copies it is considered a major hit 🙁 Of course since Black Belt Systems has a CLONE version called WinImages you may actually have a pretty good idea about that school! Humm, the more I think about it, the more I think you are on the right track – people don't want to pay for ANYTHING! Even more so in a commodity market: lowest price wins. So how does one compete in such a commodity market? The "board member of the multimedia council" sort-of-admitted he could remember the name of the package that gave his 486SX laptop Amiga 1200 capabilites. I started rattling off some of the major programs I've seen in the CLONE world and his eyes lit up when I mentioned PowerPoint – of course my eyes rolled back up into my head… Trying to fix something that isn't broken isn't a habit, its a law of nature <grin>! I guess if one believes that as long as MACs and CLONEs are the only machines out there, the Director may be just the solution. This is the reason I see MPEG more of a "standard," I've seen players for MPEG for all sorts of machines to include the rapidly fading Amiga. I'm personally a strong proponet of open standards/specifications that are not platform unique because that encourages cross-platform interoperability. Unfortunately, if one has the size of market the CLONEs current have, you probably couldn't care less about cross-platform interoperability. Humm, I guess when everybody owns a CLONE then there won't be a problem at all… Didn't you mean `bleeding edge' <grin>? Don't know how much longer I'm going to continue messing around with this stuff, especially if the Amiga doesn't resurface soon. Doing MM on the Amiga has been more like playing and I get the impression that MM on those other creatures are more like work. If I have to work, then I should seriously consider going back to the engineering world. I've done a real small scale version of CBT for my previous employer (US Air Force). I was trying to talk one of my superiors into doing something worth while with those 286 machines we had all over the place (this was several years ago). Worked on a simple question-answer training system which worked well for the limited scope application it was designed for. Even though my boss liked it so much he directed it's use for several units under his command, I could not convince him to do the same thing with "more important" daily job oriented applications. I look back at that adventure and chuckle about how easy and much more sophisticated project I could do now with my 2 year old Amiga technology <sigh>. I'm currently living in Dayton, Ohio. The birthplace of aviation – at least that is what all the signs around here tell me <grin>! EdV