Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Blues
Message-ID: <13818@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 15 Aug 90 16:40:49 GMT
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Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1056@flash.UUCP> klg@flash.UUCP (Kevin L. Gross) writes:
>In article <138.26c18ff6@intersil.uucp> hamilton@intersil.uucp writes:

>>That's interesting.  I've got an Amiga 1000 with a 65M hardrive, a 68030 with
>>4M 32 bit fast ram, 

>Yeh, and how much cash did you lay out to get it there? And how long did
>you wait after the A1000 first came out before it was available? Sheesh.

Considering the 68030 wasn't even invented until several years after the A1000
came out, I suspect he did have to wait awhile.

>>So complain to Cinemaware.  If a game crashes an Apple or IBM you don't
>>whine about the platform, it's just lousy software.

>First off, for the record, I think that Apples and IBM are EVIL, dig?
>Second, just because Apple and IBM should jump off a cliff, does that mean
>Commodore should also? That's like saying since Pintos explode on impact,
>that I shouldn't be unhappy when my Cadillac does the same thing. 

You're still ranting here, instead of making any sense.  Your car analogy is
all wrong.  The software you're complaining about is something Commodore can't
do anything about.  Period.  You can put that kind of software on an Amiga,
an Apple, or a PC.  You can put water in the gas tank of a Pinto just as easily
as you can put water in a Cadillac, and neither Ford nor GM can prevent that 
anymore than Commodore can prevent "take over the machine" software.  It's 
simply out of the control of Commodore.  Commodore can just as easily prevent 
you from physically tossing your machine out the window.  Is that such an 
amazingly difficult concept for you to grasp?

>Third, I should complain to Cinemaware, (Actually, I did) who is at least
>producing some games I like, instead of Commodore, ...

You complain to Cinemaware because IT IS THEIR FAULT.  Plain and simple.  You
don't complain to Commodore because they have nothing to do with it.  Get it?
Same reason you would complain to the Exxon people if they put water in your
Caddy's gas tank, rather than complaining to GM.  Grok?

>-Kevin L. Gross          Systems Mgr.           klg@Summation.WA.COM


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