CompuServe Messages

Steve, "I must say that you have some great hardware and software developed in Germany" First of all, I have to say that I'm Austrian and not German. I do not have this special language problem but it's often not easy to get these products in Austria as well. In terms of Maxons's products, I switched completely from looking for them in Austria, to ordering them directly from Maxon in Germany. Unfortunately there have been several problems in doing so, because of taxes, long delays in delivering and so on (Beginning with 1995 Austria is now member of the European Community, maybe that will ease things a bit). As far as hardware is concerned, your problem in getting it is not bigger than mine – buy a german magazine and order it (I have the same difficulties regarding warranty etc.). Maybe you have noticed Alex Kiernan's posting saying that Maxon Twist originally was and is being developed by some Danish (not German) developer (I only wanted to show, that other Europeans play their parts in the Amiga business as well). As well as you do, I would like to see Maxon's products converted, the market would be a much bigger then, new versions would much easier be produced. I for one would prefer a multi-language version using the locale library available from AmigaDOS 2.1 on, because regardless which mother tongue the developer speaks, conversions would not take that much time. Let's hope for the future! Best Regards, Gerhard …