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- From: blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Trying to find the perfect morpher
- Message-ID: <69973@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 14:13:44 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
- References: <amipb.037b@amipb.gna.org> <69614@cup.portal.com>
- <stefanb.722261222@hathi>
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- Interesting. I found this message in both by mail AND the public access
- areas. For anyone, else, I always read both - put it where you want it
- to be, I'll read it AND reply to it. Save me from answering twice, please.
-
- Stefan Becker.
-
- You don't understand the issues.
-
- We have retargetable capability NOW. CBM does NOT. We plan to provide it to ou
- customers very shortly. If we wait for CBM, the time frame when we can provide
- it is completely open. Your average AMiga user can't even get 3.0 (which is
- NOT retargetable) yet, much less some mythical retargetable OS. Further, there
- is NO assurance that CBM won't do the same thing AGAIN and make the
- retargetable version available only to some new higher end or different
- bus/hardware machine. Gadtools will NOT retarget NOW, and so it is not
- practical NOW.
-
- Regarding features, GadTools does not offer many types of features that we
- most assuredly need to even run on the Amiga display, much less on something
- like a DMI Resolver, or an OpalVision.
-
- Between the two, GadTools is completely impractical.
-
- You say that retargetability is a feature of Intuition - no, sorry.
- Retargeting is VAPORWARE right now from CBM. We're certified developers of
- some considerable success and high profile, members of the commercial
- developers program for CBM. I think we would know if there were RTG
- available, or soon to be available. There isn't, unless they plan to
- spring it as a total surprise.
-
- You're way off target here.
-
- Ben
-