I guess now that this thread has exploded it's hardly worth putting in my 2 cents, but that's never stopped me before. ;0) The Amiga WAS far superior to the PC in it's day - can anyone say 4096 colours when PC's had 16 ? The problem was that everyone assumed lots of colours on a Commodore machine just meant better games, the Amiga was never marketed with a clear upgrade path so the core user base continued to have the base model, and Commodore didn't market it properly at all. Oh, and Atari ST's had MIDI built in, which lost the Amiga it's deserved place as the PC of choice for musicians of the time. If Linux was the Amiga of the 00's, I'd be running it. As it is it is a perfectly respectable alternative, but as I program for Windows there's no point me using it. You didn't think you could post what you did and NOT get replies from every Amiga/Linux zealot, did you ? ;0))

It's a funny thing, but a year ago I would have said MSJ, but now the MSDN ( what was MSJ merged with some other mag ) is IMHO mostly a complete waste of time, and a reflection of Microsoft's desire to kill C++ development altogether in favour of languages they create and control, freeing them from criticism over standards and the need to support languages that run on other platforms. C# is IMHO an attempt to kill C++ the way they killed Java. While Paul DeLascia is always a good read, his little column is not worth the price of entry. Overall I regret that I still have an active subscription. Dr. Dobbs for me covers too many other languages to be of use to me, programming professionally in C++ only. I just don't get bang for buck, except in rare circumstances like the recent 'Graphics' issue, which was excellent. For this reason I would not subscribe, but buy on an issue by issue basis. WDJ/CUJ are both useful reads, but unfortunately in my experience their subscriptions are handled by a pack of clowns who are bound to the the first against the wall when the revolution comes. After asking to subscribe at the start of this year, spending MONTHS telling them that for some reason the bills addressed to something that vaguely resembled my street and suburb, but had a country of Austria were arriving to me, but no mags where, they cancelled my subscription. I did not receive a single issue. Then I contacted the editor, who promised me some free issues and T-Shirts with my new subscription. As we speak the August issue of WDJ is on the newsstands and I am yet to receive it ( my first ) although the bill came two weeks ago. I got a CUJ last week, but the free stuff they promised me has not been sent. Overall, I'd suggest that the best mag to subscribe to is VCDJ, although they are very COM focused and appear to be becoming less in depth due to pressure to provide info suitable for 'newbies' to C++. WDJ/CUJ are better, but impossible to subscribe to, MSDN has gone to the dogs and Dr. Dobbs simply doesn't have the C++ coverage to justify getting every issue. If anyone has managed to get a WDJ/CUJ subscription, I'd be interested. I've found it an almost Herculean task. Christia