🚀 go-pugleaf

I almost forgot...
If you have an unbroken SCSI controller (GVP+GURU or 3000(T) or the brand 
new (or "Newer"?) version of Oktagon check the Direct SCSI Option.  If 
not, you HAVE to setup a device disk, and therefore will need one free.

Sorry I forgot that stuff.



On another note...

Has anyone been using the VideoStage Pro that came with the CU Amiga
magazine?  I know it isn't Scala, but it sure is fun!  The Zip comes in 
Handy for presentations that need to be portable with that thing.

I also want to know if anyone has used Video Tracker?  I can't afford 
Scala (yet) so I've been thinking about registering it.  I like the fact 
that it compresses everything so that the "vidules" aren't easily 
grabbed.  I know it's artist's paranoia, but I hate having my stuff 
grabbed and modified or just used without permission.

I love the VideoStage Pro interface though, using a Timeline like in 
Premiere is very comfortable for me.

Speaking of Premiere, is QuickTime actually coming to the Amiga before 
Escom buries this machine?  After a year, you'd think we'd have a new OS 
update (3.2 with retargetable graphics and memory protection, scsi2 FAST 
device, fixes for 3.1, etc...) and instead they seem to be farming it all 
out, announcing a new OS (which is most likely incompatible with our 
present one) dropping the CD32, bungling Floppy drives (no HD, & not 
backwards compatible) and firing everyone.  C= wasn't doing this good a 
job of killing the Amiga off.

Believe me, I'd love to move-up to a PowerPC from (or within) my 3000T, 
but since Motorola couldn't make the PPC 620 Processor into an Alpha 
Killer, and has since dropped the PPC line, and because Macs suck at 
doing an OS correctly, and Memory management, and since PCs LOVE to crash 
HDs, and can't become expandable due to thier use of IRQ's, it looks like 
my next video sloution will be something like an Alpha with a Millenium 
and a Perception; with Razor's Edge, Premiere, and Lightwave for 
software.  At least there will be a good word processor, now that Final 
Writer is available for Windoze 95.

Windoze NT will suck compared to the Amiga OS, but at least I learned 
computers in a friendly enviroment (as opposed to ALL others).  The tools 
available define the game now, and Amiga Technologies is just watching 
the world go by.  NOT HEALTHY!

I guess April 12th to 14th will decide whether I still have any hope for 
the Amiga left.

-Doug Peters			depeters@inst.augie.edu