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- From: Paul Chan <paul>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Snappy driver???
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 08:28:26 GMT
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- dgentry@vlsi4.racal.com (Dave Gentry) wrote:
- >kermit@infi.net (Kermit Woodall) wrote:
- >
- >>: >: Any news on the Snappy driver for Amiga mentioned/proposed here?
- >>: >We've tried getting Play, Inc. to work with us, but so far we haven't gotten
- >>: >any cooperation. We continue to work towards this though, as a Snappy
- >>: >module for ImageFX would be a cool thing.
- >>:
- >>: What do you think their problem is? Do they snub their noses at those
- >>: of us who originally made them rich buying their stuff when they were
- >>: called Digital Creations and Newtek?
- >>:
- >>I'm not sure there is a "problem" as such. It might simply be that they
- >>never thought of someone needing to bang directly on the hardware and it's
- >>hard for them to pull together on getting us what we need to know. It
- >>might also be that I've yet to talk with the right people.
- >
- >This is a parallel port peripheral, right? Doesn't the PC port have
- >more data lines than the Amiga? I mean, I know that printers work the
- >same, but the parallel version of the Zip drive won't apparently work
- >with the Amiga because of this. I guess you guys have checked on this
- >already, right?
-
- Won`t the EPP bi-directional parallel port in the Walker fix this problem?
-
- >
- >Also, do you think you might release it as a standalone driver like
- >Endicor does with its Epson printer drivers? Oh, BTW, congratulations
- >on the purchase of Aladdin 4D.
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