(if this message posts twice sorry, I got screwed by having two windows open and it wouldn't recognize the post I spent fifteen minutes typing and researching....
Perry, great to see you here. I think I must have met you at some West Coast US Amiga show, C= in SF, Amiga shows in Oakland, Sac, or Long Beach/Queen Mary? I was never to FAUG but was active in ACCESS in Livermore and Amiga Addicts in Walnut Creek/Concord, hung out with Randy from Winner's Circle.
My A1000 was made FAR more enjoyable by use of the RRD and FACC II. I ended up eventually using C='s RAD: for its ability to accept a Diskcopy from the WB floppy, so that after a speeded up Diskcopy noverify (sounds right anyway), the 1000 would reboot and work from the RAD: like lightning. It was actually faster to do it that way than to boot from the floppy, too! Then I had two physical floppies available for software + storage, which FACC II made way faster as well. Very cool and usable solutions. In fact IIRC, I could load FACC II and then run some games like Bard's Tale, which cut its disk accesses WAY down and made it way more responsive.
Even if I was using the Starboard 2MB instead of ASDG's memory holder.
But your software always seemed high quality. I bought a buddy's software including ADPro when he changed platforms, used it to retouch and tile out a scan of my parents' b&w wedding photos for their 50th anniversary. Printed out at two feet by three feet in b&w on my HP deskjet 500 and carefully pasted up, you really couldn't see from more than three feet away that it wasn't a professional poster. So I put it behind a velvet rope that was four feet away.
I _still_ think that for many tasks that the Amiga software was just _right_ and far easier to use than packages on other platforms.
Paul T.
