Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!udel!brahms.udel.edu!don From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari-to-Amiga Convert Info Source! Message-ID: <17306@chopin.udel.edu> Date: 23 Jun 91 21:27:35 GMT References: Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 51 In article darling@cellar.UUCP (Darling) writes: >ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes: >Ever met a professional producer, Tom? We use the best programs available on >any computer: C-Lab's CREATOR/NOTATOR for sequencing, Digidesign's ATARI >SOUND TOOLS for digital audio recording/editing, and POLYFRAME for patch >editing. None, I repeat, NONE of these have been ported to the Amiga. And >unless future Amiga machines clean up the severe MIDI timing problems they've >got now, they never will be. > Don't know much about MIDI, but I've never heard of Ami having any kind of timing problems. I know the Dr. T's software has been moved to the Amiga; other MIDI sw I know of includes MusicX, Bars & Pipes, & B&P pro. >> On the other hand, Amiga sales are higher than ever. > >Bzzzt! Commodore just posted its worst figures in 4 years. Funny, the last stockholders' report got from CBM indicated that 1Q & 2Q 91 were among its best quarters ever. Something like a 50% increase in unit sales in Europe alone? Outsold IBM in Britain last year? CDTV & Video Toaster recieving good press all over the US? Selling so many A3000's via the Power Up Program that they're back ordered for weeks? Please name your sources for the above comments. >> If you need any advice on file conversion, >> where to buy Amiga-related hardware for the best price, information on the >> Atari ST emulators out for the Amiga, or have any other questions related >to > >I'll save you the time, Tom. Amiga ST emulators blow. They're all slow, >buggy, and none, I say again NONE, work properly with any MIDI software MAST makes one that claims to do so, but I've never tried it & probably won't. [Insults, disinformation, etc. deleted] >But don't come over here and shovel propaganda and outright false statements >in an effort to get others to join you in your malcontence. Grow up. A "my >computer is better" rant under any other name smells equally bad, no matter >how you may attempt to dress it up. > Thom was wrong in posting here to begin with; I would, however, follow your own advice (last quoted paragraph above) in replying to such messages. -- Gibberish May the Publications Editor, AmigaNetwork is spoken fork() be Amiga Student On-Campus Consultant, U of D here. with you. DISCLAIMER: It's all YOUR fault.