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From: consp13@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Marcus Cannava)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMAX MIDI (Was RE: beautiful music)
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Date: 28 Jun 90 20:29:12 GMT
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In article <3252@leah.Albany.Edu>, jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Jules Cisek) writes:
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|>
|> The  AMAX is one of the worst things that's ever happened to the Amy.
|>

	Why? It's just one more selling point for the Amiga. Not only is it
more powerful than the Macintosh, it can actually run the Mac's software,
and do it faster!

	I think this is a good *option* to have. Let's face it: Sometimes 
there's some really good software for other computers that have no chance 
of being ported over to the Amiga, for whatever reason.
Would you like to be locked out from the option of using that software
with an emulator, or be able to run it? Having an emulator simply broadens
the software base that the Amiga can use.
	Now, if the Amiga came *off the shelf* Macintosh compatible, that
might hinder serious Amiga development.

|>
|>People now actually consider buying the Amy just for  the  Mac
|>compatability  (it's  cheaper  than a real Mac!).
|>

	What's wrong with that? Would you rather they buy a Macintosh,
and have Commodore lose the sale? The idea here is to get Amigas "out
there", no matter what the reason. Let people begin to play with this
amazing machine, and they might even start to use the Amiga side over
the Macintosh side.

|>
|>What kind of software
|>support will a machine get if its central selling point is compatability
|>with  different,  INFERIOR,  machines? 
|>

	This is not Commodore's "central" selling point, and that's
important, for you are correct here: If Commodore was pushing the
Amiga as the "Three-in-one" machine (i.e. IBM, Mac, Amiga), then
support for Amiga s/w would be weak. 

	But Commodore is *not* doing that. Compatibility is simply
one of the Amiga's abilities, not its central selling point.

|>
|>The Amiga has a very capable operating system  with
|>much more potential than a Mac, more than an IBM comp and not just
|>for music and art.
|>

	I know that. You know that. Most of the people reading
this know that. But does "joe-average-Mac-user" or "joe-
average-IBM-user" know that? Let them buy the Amiga for the
environment they're used to -- and hopefully, they'll get a
taste for the Amiga environment, too.

|>We have to get more MIDI software on the  Amy.   A  MultiMedia  computer
|>needs  good  music software. 

	This is true, undoubtedly. 

|> Deluxe Music is a toy compared to what I'm
|>talking about.  Music-X is fantastic, but we need more. 

	There are some fantastic music programs for the Amiga, 
for one, the Dr. T's series. Others do exist. I have a feeling
it will improve.

						\marc
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