king@dciem.UUCP (Stephen King) (09/19/86)
/**/ Well, I put VIP Professional to the task, and here is how it performed. A program written in BASIC for the Commodore PET about four years ago churned through an equivalent amount of data and printed the reports in about 6-1/2 hours. Professional took 24-1/2 hours on the Amiga to do essentially the same thing. Certainly, Professional is more flexible than anything I could write for the PET, but this is a little silly. (the end result was a 220K spreadsheet - only possible with a RAM expansion). I want to write a C program to perform some of the more elementary tasks, but cannot find a reference to the Lotus 1-2-3 file format. Can anyone suggest a good source for this information? (please email) Other stuff - How about a fibre optic bus link from the Amiga to the expansion chassis? This would permit a sizeable separation between the units and ensure FCC approval. Of course, the multiplexers and whatnot would have to be enclosed in a metal box that attaches to the expansion connector. What? You say that it would be expensive? Well how expensive? Any suggestions for the multiplexers etc.? GaAs? Can it be done? I would like to mount my Amiga on the side of my desk, with the disk drive at the top (ie rotate system box 90 degrees ccw). I can see no objections to doing this, save for disk drive operation. Anyone care to comment before I try it out (and possibly damage my internal drive)? With this configuration, a right angle connector to an expansion chassis would be a nice thing to have. Has anyone gotten their hands on Dynamic CAD from Micro Illusions? I have been seeing ads for it in both Amiga magazines for some time, but nothing in the stores as yet. How about the MIDI interface? Can anyone recommend a good, relatively inexpensive electronic keyboard that will work with the Amiga MIDI? MindWalker - I also think that this is the best Amiga game that I have seen. I didn't find it easy to beat, but then I don't have the hand-eye coordination necessary to become a video game champion. Other game writers should follow MW's example - play in a pull down screen, allow multitasking, no copy protection, great graphics and sound. Some other games may present more of a challenge, but is any other more suited to the Amiga environment? .sjk. ...!utzoo!dciem!king /* my employer has instructions to deny knowledge of anything I say */