home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- VirtualBri (virtualbri@aol.com) wrote:
- : In repsonse to James Douglas MacLeod's reply to my post:
-
- : Yes, I know RISC chips are the future and their percentages will only go
- : up. And NT will be a big part of it. You can think your computer
- : platform is totally superior; I don't want to get into a lame and useless
- : system superiority discussion.
-
- Well lets kill this thread before it gets to that
-
-
- I dont thnk anything is superior. I was just saying that a good reason to
- go to NT is the scalable nature of it.
-
-
- : I'm not saying there should *only* be a Mac version, just that there
- : should be one, and the reasons for not doing it that I've heard so far,
- : are lame.
-
- Sure if they make a mac version, that would be great.
-
-
- : "There is big difference in making a tic tac toe game and a fully
- : implimented GUI for a complex program like LW and modeler."
-
- : Duh. That's not the sharware I was talking about, and I shouldn't even
- : have responed to this .
-
- Well, yah ok it was a lame statement. But, I sure bet decoding a GUI for
- a new platform really sucks. Just a thought.
-
-
- : "Why would you port it to 68000 Mac machines, they are effectively dead,
- : and not used by the 'professional' people you are talking about.
-
- : Why port it to the Powermacs when there are so few of them, and they will
- : run NT in the future anyway?"
-
- : Why support an Amiga version then? That's a "dead" 68k machine. Plenty
-
- Why support the Amiga version? Becasue that is there user base. If the
- program started on the Mac, would it be ported to the Amiga? not right
- now, that is for sure.
-
-
- : of people are still hammering away professionally on Quadra 950s and will
- : be for a while (especially if they bought it instead of leasing), and the
- : 060's will be out soon.
-
- Hmmmm. Still tough for a company to invest any time into developing an
- application for them.
-
- : The "why bother, they will run NT anyway" arguement is weak. Gee, I guess
- : all software development on all systems should stop except NT programs by
- : that reasoning....
-
- Come on that is not what I was saying.
-
-
- : NewTek booth of him flying around one more time, I'm gonna be sick. It's
- : probably just jealously.
-
- Have you ever been in a helicopter? It sucks. Helicopter pilots are
- insane. You are not missing anything.
-
-
- : "The professionals you talk about will buy an NT machine if the tools are
- : there, just like the bought SGIs, becuase the tools were there."
-
- : Uh, first, the people who bought SGI's don't need an NT machine.
-
- People who have a $ 50 000 dollar contract will buy the tools to make it
- happen.
-
-
-
- Second,
- : it's not that simple, especially if they've got money already invested in
- : a system.
-
- If they could get a Mac version that would be great. But they cant do
- everything at once.
-
-
-
-
- : Buy your NT version, make lots of animations with it. I hope I see some
-
-
- Well I am sticking with the Amiga versin for now.
-
-
- Peace Love Happiness and cross platform computing.
-
- :)
-
-
-
-
-