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From: billd@crash.UUCP (Bill D'Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: amiga
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Date: Thu, 15-Jan-87 19:58:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 15 19:58:23 1987
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In answer to your question about "is anyone doing commercial
development for the Amiga?"  The San Diego Amiga Users Group
has a developer's Special Interest Group which meets once a 
month and regularly has 30 or more people in attendance.  Most
of these people contend that they are actually doing development.
How many of them are working on commercial products?  I don't know.

There is a great deal of interest on CompuServe and People-Link in
commercial packages for the Amiga, I'm working on something at
present, but have no good feel for when it will hit the marketplace.

Not long ago someone, whose name escapes me, posted a message decrying
the lack of commercial products available for the Amiga.  He noted that
were a number of high quality public domain products for the system, and
that quite a few of them would probably have been commercial successes
if the authors had chosen to go that route.  I would like to reinforce
that persons opinion.  I feel that potential buyers of the Amiga will be
strongly influenced by the software available in local computer stores
when making a decision about which computer to purchase.  Without a 
significant increase in the number of commercially available programs
for this excellent machine, we are liable to see a decline in interest
by the general buying public.  The public domain programs are wonderful,
and the people who create them deserve a lot of thanks and credit for
producing generally excellent products, but very few sales people are
going to mention the quantity of public domain software available for
Amy.  What's really needed is a commercial product (not a game) which is
so great that not only will all of the current owners of Amigas buy it, but
it will be strong enough to attract purchases of the machine just so the
software will be available.  I don't know what that program is, yet, but
I'm still looking for it.

Sorry to have carried on so long.

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