b1a0tUpgrading DiscussiontRio/Elven 11ts2f2c11     Upgrading Discussion Part II
f1c12           by Rio/Elven 11

c13Rio,  the  graphician and co-editor of
the   italian   Amiga-Scenzine  Planet
contacted  us  to  participate  to our
upgrade discussion.  Here his words:


c12I've  just  finished  reading issue 25
and found the article about the common
question  thinking  on  upgrading  and
more  powerfull  machines  taking over
the  whole  scene  really interesting.
It  could  be  named  "To be or not to
be?".

I  tought  lot  of  times  about  this
question    and    about   the   maybe
unfindable  answer and - quite strange
-   my  mind  found  a  well  suitable
solution for the enigma, I think.

In  my personal opinion the problem is
not  really  centered on machines, the
real  problem  can  be  found in every
Scener's  way  of thinking.

c13I'm going to explain:

c11I   always  seen  Scene  as  something
mixing  a  flavour  of  art,  a lot of
friendship  and  a bit of underground-
unknown- hidden style.

The  main  difference between a Scener
and  a  "normal" computer user is that
we  used to pull out from our machines
always  the  impossible,  just  take a
look at C=64 productions nowadays.

And  here  we  are  being  near to the
solution,  do you think Leonardo could
be  worse  if  he used another kind of
brush,  or  if  he  lived in 90's ?  I
think  not. The difference is not made
by  the  instrument,  but  is  made by
human mind and personal touch.

c13Here  you  are,  my  answer:

c12I think upgrading is fine, but only if
we go on pushing our machines to their
best,  I don't want to be like some PC
coders  who  head  their  work just on
processing power saying:
f4 "It  runs slow?  Who cares, next year
will be available Pentium 700 and then
you'll see it running!"f1.

Finally  (I'm starting to be boring) I
just  want to say that, in my personal
opinion, Scene will live forever, only
if  we  go  on doing things that other
"normal"  people  can't  do.  Not just
praying  holy  Intel  to pop up with a
new  faster (bugging) processor, if we
fall  in  the  mistake to upgrade only
because producing will be more easy to
do    we'll    be    like    Micro$*%&
programmers.

And  I  really  prefer  stop "Scening"
than  being  a  father Bill and mother
Intel's son.

c13Graphically yours
c12Rio/Elven Eleven