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From: mapjilg@bath.ac.uk (J I L Gold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Fading? : Revisited
Message-ID: <1990Mar29.095430.29805@bath.ac.uk>
Date: 29 Mar 90 09:54:30 GMT
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A lot of folks have been gassing and flaming C= and the Amiga in
general recently. This depresses me :-( What did they buy their
Amigas for ? So that they could show off this amazing new aspect of
their personality ("Hey girls, look at me, I've got an Amiga and
it's got custom chips, half a meg of ram, a *real* sexy disk drive
and a BIIIIIGGGG power supply.") I've only had my A500 for 8 months,
yet when all else has deserted me, Ami has kept me amused (yes, and
my girlfriend too) on those long cold winter evenings when there's
f**k all to do. Programming it is fun and a challenge. The games are
the best around. It allows me to be creative artistically and musically,
as well as just computationally. I KNOW it's not the "best" computer
around, but since I'm not using it for some ego trip that bothers me
not a jot. The fact is, most of us know it as well, but that doesn't
stop us loving the machine.
 It bothers me even less that it might be ignored by industry,
since that doesn't affect what I get out of it ("well I'VE got a C=
computer and you've only got an IBM so YOU'RE paying a visit to Mr.
Liquidator"). Why can't these guys stop whingeing and try and re-capture
some of the fun that can be had out of using the computer rather than
worrying about someone having a better toy than they have?

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#  J.Gold                            |    mapjilg@uk.ac.bath.gdr               #
#  University of Bath , UK           |    jilg@uk.ac.bath.maths                #