Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!michael.hainsworth
From: michael.hainsworth@canremote.uucp (MICHAEL HAINSWORTH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Piracy & Quality
Message-ID: <89080709104850@masnet.uucp>
Date: 7 Aug 89 04:42:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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I agree totally with your views that the Amiga Community lacks severely
in quality software.  For the past 3 years, the IBM PC owners have been
oohing and ahhing about the amiga graphics, butcomplaining that there's
no software base... almost nonexistant.  Well sorry PC guys, but we now
have the base just a lack in quality.
 
Any 2bit (or should I say 8bit) software author can create medeocre (sp) 
or even very poor software and still make some money on it.  Your
reference to Cinemaware software is very well founded.  Cinemaware
relies on wooing their potential buyers in the store when the
salesperson boots the disk up.  Rocket Ranger is a prime example. 
Software publishers and authors spend too much time on the intros and
title screens and less time on the game play.
 
I have no complaints about the productivity software for the Amiga, with 
the exeption of a few and this relates primarily to bugs and price.
 
There are considerably more Amiga 500's around than the higher end
machines (A2000, A2000HD, A2500) and who are the people buying these
A500s?  Students, and middle to lower-middle class households.  How
often do these people get a chance to drop down $300 for a
wordprocessor?  The Graphics of the Amiga are fantastic, but if you want 
to develop some exellent artwork you must be willing to put down at
least $700.00 for the software as each package has it's strong points
but never has them all.
 
Hey, we're not even going to get into the price of hard drives now, are
we! :-)
 
Michael Hainsworth
 
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