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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac file types
Message-ID: <128@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 91 07:00:42 GMT
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Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Organization: Ryptyde Timesharing (ryptyde.cts.com)
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Responding to the following:

>>You can just as easily use them on other machines.
>
>Yeah, so?  You have to go through hoops to do so.  I did the Amiga version
>of Crystal Quest, and one of the biggest pains in the butt of the entire
>conversion was pulling the data out of the resources and converting it
>into some usable format on the Ami.  Just how many machines, pray tell,
>can handle PICT resources directly?

I've seen many utilities on the IBM to convert various formats, INCLUDING PICT
(although that one's a bit hard!). If you guys don't have enough developers
to have support for foreign file formats, don't complain about Macs in general.
How many machines have support for Amiga file formats? Relatively few, because
there is much less need for file format compatibility with such a small user
base. That is the prime factor.