From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Jul 19 08:19:27 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de From: Maurits van de Kamp Organization: Revee Creative Productions To: mint@fishpool.com Subject: Re: [MiNT] Re[2]: GEM boost Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:16:44 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200507190736.25602.maurits@bassment.nu> <20050719020114.hsv6q5xjt14w4wwo@coolrunningconcepts.com> In-Reply-To: <20050719020114.hsv6q5xjt14w4wwo@coolrunningconcepts.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200507190816.44198.maurits@bassment.nu> X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: maurits@bassment.nu 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=-1.0 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: > >> Then my next question is - what would make MiNT more attractive to MagiC > >> users, or rather what is unattractive about MiNT? > > > > Usually misinformed opinions like yours. > > Uhmm .. that didn't answer my question. It does. It's this whole "unixy geeky" reputation that keeps people away from 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 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. 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. Maurits.