In a message of 04-May-99 Peter Locke wrote:
> Old yes, obsolete no. 030s and below are a lot more compatible with
> AOS than 040/060s. I don't seem to have to run any sort of
> patching program to cover shortcomings in my CPU/FPU.
Well, I'm Danish and you're Australian, so perhaps we don't put the same
meaning into the words :) More or less "old" = "not bought today" and
"obsolete" = "old and ought to be replaced with something newer" in my
vocabulary :-)
But your statement above only leads me to claim that the current AmigaOS
also is obsolete. A lot of people will agree with me, and it is also one
of the reasons why they are making a new AmigaOS 3.5.
> True, faster CPUs, faster operation; up to a point.
> As to having the right to complain. Everybody, always has the
> right to complain about anything. It's called free speech. Of course,
> you don't have to pay any attention to them. That's your right.
That's naturally correct. But in my opinion one ought to try to solve a
problem before starting to complain - and in this case it means upgrading
ones equipment to something a bit more up-to-date. I don't find it fair
towards the developers that people bothers him with such. If they have an
actual request it is just fine. Requests has got to be valid, and a
request is not valid if there is no sense in implementing it or if the
request is impossible to fulfill due to the users too old equipment.
> Except for those 286 users who complain about not being able to run
> the latest 3dfx game. (Personal experience)
> Not to mention the businesses with 8MB 486s that I do support work
> for, but then again they're not interested in the latest and
> greatest games. The machines that they have still run their
> Win3.11 and their DOS applications quite nicely thank you very much
> and "we're not going to upgrade until we get our initial investment
> back".
Well, it might be different in Australia. I don't think I know of anybody
in Denmark today using anything less than a Pentium whether it is companies
or private users.
But I agree with you. Why upgrade if you don't need it. I have an 486
because I have to run WordPerfect 5.1 and why should I upgrade it when I
don't use it for anything else. But if I some day need to run Word97
or whatever then I know that I will have to upgrade my hardware as well
as the software. Why do many Amiga users still expect present software
to be able to run on their old computers?
> I don't really think that there would still be any companies
> developing for the amiga, or even still existing, after this long
> an interregnum(?) if amiga owners were really the penny pinchers that
> some people make us out to be.
But is there that many companies left? Haven't most of them disappeared
long ago?
I think unless you make a superb application with no competition, like
Holger did with Miami, then I think it is very difficult to earn a living
programming for the Amiga. I have absolutely no idea what Olli earns
making Voyager, MD2, AmIRC etc. but I hope it is a lot - but it is
probably not enough because as far as I know he still has a fulltime job
(or he is using Windows at home and pretending to be at work).
In my opinion we are a few people that more or less bears the whole
Amiga market (okay, quite a few :-). People like me (and hopefully you)
that register all the shareware they use. So many people are using the
software in either a cracked version or a pirated version :(
Uffe Holst
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