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From: Rminnich@dewey.udel.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: The trouble with the Amiga
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Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 11:40:22 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  5 11:40:22 1986
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The trouble with the Amiga is simple. I still, after almost a year
now, can not point out a set of programs to someone that will 
let them work on the Amiga as well as they can on a Mac. Can anyone?
Can I run TextCraft and paste in a DeluxePaint image from the clipboard?
Or a spreadsheet? Look at how long it takes DPaint just to start up. 
And, when I am done, the output looks just plain lousy. 
One of the major complaints on a paper I submitted was the quality
of the illustrations, done on an Amiga. And yes, i have LoadILBM and 
I have modified it to use the rast port dump. I have played with 
all the parameters. It still looks bad. 

Multitasking is wonderful. How many Amiga products really support it 
well? DeluxePaint for one takes up the whole machine. TextCraft used to. 
A lot of the early software showed (to me, anyway) that many 
DEVELOPERS did not understand multi-tasking. 

Sure, there are some really terrific programs, (InfoMinder comes
to mind) but people are going to judge an Amiga by the Mac standard.
And it fails. People just do not understand that the machine is different
and better in most ways. They only understand that it will not do what 
a Mac has done since Jan. 1984.

Things are looking up now that everyone talks IFF but there STILL IS 
NO WAY TO GET TO A CLIPBOARD! I wish I had the time to write this stuff;
so does everybody. It ought to be there now, however!

   ron