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Subject: Re: The Lightwave Upgrade Forum
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>From: scoombs@cix.compulink.co.uk (Simon Coombs)
>Subject: Re: The Lightwave Upgrade Forum
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>syndesis said:
>> It might not be outlandish to assume that LightWave will sell 100:1
>> with Intel versus everything else. It's safe to assume your plug-in
>> will arrive on Intel first.
>
>It seems to me NewTek ought to have some kind of arrangement with
>plug-in developers that provides an incentive for cross-development,
>even if that means acting as broker to outside programmers who could
>port code between platforms.
>
>Simon Coombs
>scoombs@cix.c
For sure! Though if NewTek's plug-in support got it right, a lot of the
code would be OS independent, that is, there would only need to be minor
changes in the source code (assuming it was writen in C and not assembler),
still, its up to us Amiga LW users (and right now- except for a few PCers
with Beta copies- that all there are) to convince developers to keep making
Amiga plug-ins. If NewTek wants to step in and help, all the better.
BTW: once this Amiga situation is cleared up, you can bet things will
improve- its kind of hard to justify writing for a "dead" system, even if