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#TO Amiga Devlpr Meeting
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Larry :
This Tuesday night (july 22) we had our Amiga Developer's meeting.
About 30 people showed up. There were 3 guest speakers :
Gary Beierne Overture software – finish Musicraft
Bob McGualski Anakin Research – Easel graphic tablet
Micheal Rosenberg Computer Concepts – MultiUser/tasking software
Chris Zamara (Transactor Magazine), Jm Butterfield, Comspec (ram manu) were
some of the attendees.
There was much interaction among developers with exchange of solutions
problems and philosophies. The atmosphere was right. The next meeting is
tentatively set for August 26, but I think that it should be pushed to
early/middle September.
The Amiga developers that I met were a very knowledgable yet approachable
type . There was discussion of support that the developers receive from
WestChester and CBM-Amiga. In both cases everyone was impressed with the
quality and speed of the reponses of these groups.
Larry thanx indirectly for the idea to setup a local meeting. Jim Butterfield
will be arriving Vancouver Sunday July 27 so you may want to look him up. I
guess that even computer (hackers) need culture like EXPO now and again. I
know that I would love to travel there to see it ( who knows it may help my
performance )
This message just scrolled which means that I have type enough for now.
Talk to you more
Roy
Commodore Canada
Glad to hear the meeting went well. We always have a good atmosphere of
mutual help whenever the developers get together. It seems that we are all
fighting the same battles. There are a lot of hurdles to overcome, and as
they are successfully conquered, there is a tendency for wanting to share the
knowledge. I find this in direct opposition to the usual developer attitude
as evidenced on other machines, where secrecy is the keyword for fear that
someone will "get the jump on the market".
Capilano Computing showed the Panorama group their new product at this last
Wednesday's meeting, and it looks very nice so far. There will be a demo
available soon. (They provided one already, but there are a few problems with
it and they want to do some more work with it before releasing it to general
distribution)
It is a schematic/circuit emulator, complete with the ability to name and
view signals, a library of standard parts, etc. It will eventually have the
ability to accept a circuit "macro", with a shape determined by the user, and
callable from the library. It's being written in Modula 2.
Since I don't know where Jim will be staying, I can only hope that he'll look
me up when he's here. Doug Albins (a forum member) is here and called me
yesterday. He will probably be dropping by tomorrow night.
Glad to hear the meeting went well. We always have a good atmosphere of
mutual help whenever the developers get together. It seems that we are all
fighting the same battles. There are a lot of hurdles to overcome, and as
they are successfully conquered, there is a tendency for wanting to share the
knowledge. I find this in direct opposition to the usual developer attitude
as evidenced on other machines, where secrecy is the keyword for fear that
someone will "get the jump on the market".
Capilano Computing showed the Panorama group their new product at this last
Wednesday's meeting, and it looks very nice so far. There will be a demo
available soon. (They provided one already, but there are a few problems with
it and they want to do some more work with it before releasing it to general
distribution)
It is a schematic/circuit emulator, complete with the ability to name and
view signals, a library of standard parts, etc. It will eventually have the
ability to accept a circuit "macro", with a shape determined by the user, and
callable from the library. It's being written in Modula 2.
Since I don't know where Jim will be staying, I can only hope that he'll look
me up when he's here. Doug Albins (a forum member) is here and called me
yesterday. He will probably be dropping by tomorrow night.