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- From: bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Tandy Unveils 16-Million-Color CD-ROM Multimedia system
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- References: <BzKosp.2zF@news.iastate.edu> <BzKqr1.JCy@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <Bzqrqn.Cvo@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <Bzr29w.8Kt@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 23:39:16 CST
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- In article <Bzr29w.8Kt@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- > This kind of lack of vision by Amiga users is why I say that the Amiga is
- >no longer "the computer for the creative mind." I can think of a lot of
- >applications that could be ported to the Amiga or made uniquely on the Amiga
- >if the Amiga has a large base of users with AGA Amigas and CD-ROM drives.
- >A port of the CD-ROM version of the "Star Trek 20th Anniversary Game" would be
- >nice. A port of DataMax's CD-ROM tax preparation software would also be nice.
-
- If DataMax requires a CD-ROM for their tax preparation software, they're doing
- something wrong. I used to work for a company that got bought out by Chipsoft,
- and I'm fairly familiar with their TurboTax for Windows and TurboTax for the
- Macintosh (formerly Taxview), and they only needed three disks to do a very
- good representation of the IRS forms as they appear in paper form. If DataMax
- is telling you that they won't port until they get CDROM for the Amiga, and
- then only if the Amiga supports certain very high resolution non-interlace
- displays, they're just blowing smoke. They're probably aren't doing it
- because their losing money on the Amiga version or their Amiga programmer's
- left them.
-
- When Softview (also bought out by Chipsoft) developed Taxview for the Mac and
- Windows, they had the same base tax software, and developed interfaces for the
- Mac and Windows GUI. I never saw DataMax's Amiga software, but if it was a
- port of the DOS software, and didn't use an internal tax engine that was
- platform independent, it's not surprising they dropped it if they have to report
- the entire thing year after year.
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- bruce@zuhause.mn.org
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