Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!jb10320 From: jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Amiga Bashers Message-ID: <1990Sep21.225236.26561@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 21 Sep 90 22:52:36 GMT References: <9009200536.AA27514@apple.com> <15362@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 53 In article <15362@yunexus.YorkU.CA> philip@yunexus.yorku.ca (Phil McDunnough) writes: >In article <9009200536.AA27514@apple.com> MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET writes: >> >>>Faster computers,etc... are not what everyone needs/wants. >> >>It's what I need and what I want. The speed (or shall I say, LACK OF) is >>probably the biggest reason so many software companies have pulled. Even >>though new companies are being started, more are >>pulling out. How many GS specific (or //e) games have come out in the last >>year? How many for the Amiga? > >If it is speed you want, then why not get a 486. The 386/486 are probably >the best price/performance computers you will find if speed is the only >issue, which I do not agree with. Why do people keep bringing up the Amiga? >I'm frankly getting annoyed at the analogy. There is more to computing >than games. In fact the percentage of games worth buying is very small. WHOA! I hope you have your flame retardant suit ready. There are a million Amiga owners who 1) Produce TV commercials with their amiga 2) Emulate every known useful computer system 3) Publish magazines (the entire contents of Info are done on an Amiga with Pagestream, one of the better Page Layout programs available) 4) The Amiga runs full Unix with networking support. Ethernet cards are $200-$300 for the Amiga. I've seen a zillion games that I'd buy for Amiga if I had one. There are a few people who buy the Amiga 500 to buy games, but $3000 machines such as the Amiga 3000 are used for more noteworthy pursuits. Note that at least Commodore HAS a $500 machine. And this $500 box still multitasks (unlike ANY Apple), can still be upgraded (unlike the PS/1). I'm not bashing Apple- I'm bashing "Anti-Amiga". >There are excellent opportunities for people to come out with a whole new >approach to computer games, now that we have CD-ROM's, Hypermedia,etc... The Amiga has CD-ROM based multimedia, and the equivalent of the VOC has been standard since day one. [[ PS/1 stuff removed ]] >Philip McDunnough >University of Toronto >philip@utstat.toronto.edu >[my opinions] -- Jawaid Bazyar | Blondes in big black cars look better wearing Senior/Computer Engineering | their dark sunglasses at night. (unk. wierdo) jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu | The gin, the gin, glows in the Dark! | (B O'Cult)