Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Reality check: Amiga coverage is not a right, but a privilege Message-ID: <7294@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 18 Dec 90 02:39:46 GMT References: <1990Dec17.034643.7021@maytag.waterloo.edu> <1990Dec17.055249.7684@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Dec17.095310.8040@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 34 In article <1990Dec17.095310.8040@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: > Truth. Editors of two major non-IBM-specific magazines have told me that > they cringe whenever they print *anything* on the Amiga, because they > know that they'll get tons of nasty letters telling them their "mistakes". What sort of "mistakes" are we talking about here? Are we talking about people like Jerry Pournelle? If that's the case we're better off without the coverage: no, "any coverage is better than no coverage" is not true. The best thing Jerry has ever said about the Amiga is that a 2000 is a tolerable video game machine. > But not a large subscriber set. Most Amigans tend to not subscribe to BYTE. Many of us used to. I did. I've dropped several magazines (Byte, Dr. Dobbs Journal, etc) because they're turned into IBM-PC only rags with maybe a little Mac coverage. But when you like an article in a magazine, TELL THEM. I haven't read this particular Byte, but I'll probably buy the magazine just for the article. Something I think more to the point: Editor are just ordinary people. When you buy stuff for the Amiga and it doesn't work on Amiga 3000s, or on 512K Amigas, or with 68030 cards, or multitask, you're going to get a negative opinion of the machine. AUTHORS, please do something about this. Commodore: AmigaVision is a cute program, but how about a runtime that'll let AmigaVision scripts run on stock 500s? "You mean I need to buy ANOTHER 512K just to use this?" I mean, really. You can't expect Xenon 7 (or whatever) to multitask on a 500, but surely my 3000 can pump bits fast enough so I shouldn't have to reboot just to play a stupid game! -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .