From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: HELP--AMIGA OR IBM PC CLONE?
Date: 12 Jan 1993 01:37:03 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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In article <C0nIsp.H9K@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>   You conveniently forgot what they are.  They are Final Copy and ADPro.  Both
>are garbage, and can't even begin to compare with Word for Windows or a 

Garbage my sweet ass, you fool.  Perhaps they FC isn't better than
everything for Windows, but it _IS_ a powerful WP of its own right.
And I contest...

>Windows image-processing program.  (I say that ADPro is garbage because it is
>a totally hands-off image processing program.  Almost everything is done 
>completely blind, so that you cannot see what you are doing.  And it has no
>image editing and painting features.  This is more escusable for a program
>running on an older Amiga, but for a program for an AGA Amiga it is garbage)

This is where you show your total ignorance to ADPro's capabilities
_AND_ to the Amiga market in general.

1)  Don't even consider calling it garbage.  It does an awesome job of
batch processing, and though its hands-off approach isn't fantastic,
it does an unequivocably _AWESOME_ job at the many things it can do on
FULL and PARTS OF images.  Perhaps your limited knowledge is of old
versions.  Though the "hands off" feeling still exists, there are ways
of manipulating parts of images.

2)  You call it garbage, and by doing that, say that you know NOTHING,
or close to, when you speak of image-processing programs for ANY
system.  Windows included.  Care to tell us what Windows
image-processing you've done?  Care to tell us which packages you've
used?  Seen?  Know about?  Heard the name whispered in a dark closet
somewhere?  Anything?  Care to support the utter bullshit you just
spouted?

3)  You forget that there is an EXTREMELY POWERFUL hands-on system
known as ImageMaster, which is regarded to be better than ADPro in
some areas.  They are considered on-par with output, with each side
having advantages.  If you're processing entire images, ADPro can do a
lot for you.  If you're working on detail, then ImageMaster is a
powerful tool.

And any _PROFESSIONAL_ will have more than one tool for the job.
Don't get ADPro _OR_ ImageMaster, get both.  Though it's not
necessary, it ensures the best of both worlds.  If you have to get
one, in my opinion, which is different than what it was a month ago,
get ImageMaster.

>   Commodore is caught right in the middle.  Amiga systems have neither the
>out-of-the-box usefulness of the pre-bundled Macintosh systems nor the
>price-competitiveness of the IBM clone systems.  And Commodore is still
>especially weak in the mid-range market, where the bulk of all sales are
>made.  (What does Commodore have between the A4000 and A1200?  Nothing)

And that, too, will change.  Everyone here knows how.

Greg

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