From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Jul 19 08:34:33 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Message-ID: <20050719023305.auf5aaropwn48go8@coolrunningconcepts.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 02:33:05 -0400 From: evan@coolrunningconcepts.com To: Maurits van de Kamp Cc: mint@fishpool.com Subject: Re: [MiNT] Re[2]: GEM boost References: <200507190736.25602.maurits@bassment.nu> <20050719020114.hsv6q5xjt14w4wwo@coolrunningconcepts.com> <200507190816.44198.maurits@bassment.nu> In-Reply-To: <200507190816.44198.maurits@bassment.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - esc14.midphase.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - fishpool.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32001 502] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - coolrunningconcepts.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: evan@coolrunningconcepts.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.4 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, NO_REAL_NAME X-Spam-Level: Quoting Maurits van de Kamp : > It does. It's this whole "unixy geeky" reputation that keeps people away from Hopefully we can change that. > MiNT. But the real underlying reason for the statistics is of course much > easier: In the early 90s, MagiC was the easiest way to go and you only used > MiNT if you had a special reason to. Nowadays, the few remaining Atarians I've been using MiNT before there was a MagiC. I remember when my MF30 died and I got the 512MB SCSI drive .. never thought that could be filled up ever! > just use their Atari nostalgicly and hence they are not going to change > platforms on it now, no matter how nice EasyMiNT is (most don't even know it > exists). SpareMiNT and EasyMiNT came too late to make a significant change in > this. It would take some really great apps that only work on MiNT/XaAES to cause the change I think. I was just wondering if there are specific features of MagiC or other issues that make it more attractive - things we could address. > By the way, I don't know where this 50% statistic comes from but I wonder if > it's accurate today; seeing the activity of developers on the MiNT side in > recent years I'm starting to doubt it. I don't believe its accurate either, but I'm hated enough already, so I don't need to go disagreeing with statistics that I have no clue about at all. Playing devils advocate doesn't get you many friends, but it does occasionally make people think about the flip-sides of issues.