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On Wed, 4 Oct 1995, Jamie Krutz wrote:

> Upon what direct evidence to you base the conjecture that there are
> 10 people running LW on Intel clones for every one on Amigas right
> now?

No, I wasn't talking about "right now"...more along the lines of what
will most likely happen over the next 6 months.  At least 3-5 new
LightWave users subscribe to this EVERY DAY and I would be very surprised
to find out that the majority of them are not PC owners.

There are just a hell of a lot more PCs out there, and so, there will be
many more people interested in running LightWave on their PC.  "Right
Now", I'm fairly certain that the Amiga still has a slight advantage in
number of LightWave users, but that won't last.


> Is it that difficult to recompile an already designed plug-in for the _same
> program_ that's already running on the various operating systems?
> Something's a bit wrong with the whole multiplatform approach of LW
> if that's true.

I'm not a programmer, so I wouldn't know, but I'd doubt if it's as easy
as just running the source through a different compiler...I hope I'm
wrong through.


> Because I use LightWave and have for a very long time, continued
> LightWave Amiga support still means a lot to me even when I
> consider adding other platforms.

Same here...I will still be running LightWave on my Amigas to model, set
up scenes, and test render new stuff for the Raptor to gorge itself on.


> > and the dwindling number
> > of (buying) Amiga users is why prices are skyrocketing for the Amiga.
>
> What prices are those?

Okay, that wasn't a very accurate statement...I should have said that
hardware for other computers is becoming more and more powerful while
dropping in price....the Amiga is still a number of months (years) away
from a significant hardware upgrade and it's way too expensive.  This is
true for a lot of other Amiga hardware....try setting up an Ethernet
network on your machines.

Software for the Amiga is a different story....Amiga programs have always
been inexpensive and this was one of the things that made the Amiga
great, but it's also one of the things that killed the market so quickly.
Companies that were making miniscule profits on their hard work to begin
with, cut their losses and ran at the first sign of trouble from Commodore.

It's going to take a LOT of hard work on Amiga Technologies' part to undo
the damage done in the last couple of years, but I'm certainly hoping
that they pull off a miracle!  I still own 4 Amigas, two of them never
get shut off, and I'd love to see some new cutting-edge hardware come out
for them!

                                     -David Warner


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