We need non-interlace?
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It'd be hard to ever duplicate a design team as good as the original Amiga
group in Los Gatos – even if the team had been kept together and given a
free hand to do whatever they wanted to do, they probably couldn't keep up
a sustained effort to equal the original design. But I do think the team
that C='s put together for the V1.4 development effort can do a good job
starting with the current OS and refining and extending it, and cleaning up
the rough edges. …cheath
Charlie,
I respect your opinion. Thanks.
BTW – is it true that C= has bought ARP and will be using it?
Betty
We've been talking to Commodore for about a year about ARP now; we made a
tenative agreement back at DevCon, and I recently spent a couple days in
West Chester talking with some folks. I'm optimistic, but will believe it
when I see it and will let official Commodore spokesmen make any
announcements. …cheath
Thanks for the info. I had read somewhere that there was a meeting of some
developers and some C= folks at which the use of ARP had been announced.
Perhaps that was not totally accurate. Do appreciate getting the facts
straight.
Well, if its not an accomplished fact then I wish you would quit talking
like it is. Gives people the wrong impression; and as you know there is a
strong following that opposes the inclusion of arp.library on Workbench.
James Bayless
New Horizons Software, Inc.
I'm curious James… why is it opposed?
Well, speaking for myself I oppose its inclusion in Workbench for the
reasons mentioned in previous messages here (others may and probably do
have different reasons–there is much not to like about ARP other than its
ridiculous name).
Basically, arp.library is a mish-mash of totally unrelated functions,
thrown together in the true hacker spirit of "it sounds neat so lets incl
for weekend programming or PD/Shareware stuff, but it does NOT belong in an
official system software release. If AmigaDOS could stand to have some of
these functions in it then Commodore should enhance AmigaDOS, if Intuition
could benefit from some new routines then put them there. But don't take
all these enhancements from different areas of the Amiga and put them in
the same place! This only contributes to the Amiga's perceived image of a
hacker's delight that is useless for serious use.
If the Amiga is going to have a professional image, Commodore is going to
have to get its act together in the area of serious R& D in system
software development. I don't see this happenning (was there any direction
in WB 1.3? Seems more a collection of this person's hack with that person's
pet program). I hope that 1.4 will be different (and from what I know of
the new Workbench things will be better). Only time will tell.
James Bayless
New Horizons Software, Inc.
Well, we have quite different opinions on that I guess. Such is life.