I use MakeCD regularly on my Amiga and it copes well with anything that I ever want it to do, basically it does what it says on the tin and I think that's fair enough.
I think it's a little daft to compare the likes of MakeCD with modern Windows packages which tend to be fully functional, all singing all dancing CD, VCD, DVD, file conversion and databackup programs. It would be fair to say that these kinds of software packages easily outperform MakeCD in terms of what they can do.
With regard to MakeCD's ability to write CDs, which is what this argument originally started over (somebody suggested using a PC as it was a better solution) I think this is inaccurate. MakeCD is quite capable of burning a CD just as quickly and effectively as any software on the PC, the difference is that the PC's hardware is far faster than the Amiga hardware so therefore it typically takes much longer on a (classic) Amiga to burn a CD than on a PC. That has nothing to do with MakeCD's performance.
I think MakeCD is well in need of a major update now which includes an overhaul of it's GUI and more support for the needs of the modern computer user which I would agree includes support for DVD, VCD, and all the other toys that go with it. I understand that you can actually burn a VCD using a combination of MakeCD and a third party program specific to VCD creation, but really this kind of support needs to be seamless in order to satisfy the needs of the average user.
We're back to the time-old argument that in order to get development on a computer platform you need users (customers) and in order to get users you need development.
Brian
