Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!tut!hydra!hylka!jalkio From: JALKIO@cc.helsinki.fi (Jouni Alkio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Re: Look ma, no flames! Message-ID: <1160@cc.helsinki.fi> Date: 27 Oct 89 23:41:39 GMT References: <4675ca0d.14a1f@force.UUCP> Lines: 49 In article <4675ca0d.14a1f@force.UUCP>, covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes: > > And when I first bought the 520ST, the ST was a steal. And when I first bought > the Mega I was told about all of the future boards being designed for it. > Over the last 3 years the ST, both 520/1040 and Mega ST, have been left in > the dust by IBM PC clones. And now that Commodore is producing an Amiga (A3000) > which uses non-interlaced graphics, the A3000 is a serious contender in my > book. Amiga A3000? I haven't even heard of it. Can you buy one in the US now? If you can't is it still a plan or do they have a prototype? How much will it cost? What are the specifications? And what's so special about non-interlaced graphics? I have only heard of an Amiga A2500. It is has only a M68020 and is more expensive than an Atari TT! What makes the A3000 special that you would choose it over a TT, for example? I doubt Commodore is supporting more than Atari... > > I would dearly like to get a good CASE tool but if you think I will > ever see one for the ST or the TT you are pretty optimistic. The > software market has just plain and simply left the ST. Except for > games. There are plenty of new games for the ST. Just lots and lots > of games. And mostly from Europe. You could buy your non-games software from Europe, too. There is plenty of it. > > So, that leaves the ST as a Game Machine. and maybe that where ATari > should concentrate. Sell the ST and TT as Super Game Machines and blow > away Ninetendo. A Games Machine with Unix - you must be joking! > > But, I will NEVER buy another computer from Atari. Especially > a closed system like the TT/P. One lousy short VME card slot > does not make an OPEN system. you need 5 or more. One slot > just guarantees that no one will design for it. Lack of resources. What do you need those 5 or more slots for. (And please don't answer: "internal modems, hard-disks, etc", because that's only a cosmetic issue.) By the way, I've read that Atari will bring the graphics card of the ATW (which is quite neat) for the TT as a VME-card... Jouni Alkio