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From: aiajms@castle.ed.ac.uk (-=Andy=-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: it would be nice (Right Of Reply) Pauvre Marc!
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Date: 23 Sep 90 11:41:50 GMT
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Well well well,....I think Mr Davidsons best quote of the century must
be :-


	"Wish I Had Bought An Amiga"

when he found his Hard Drive had trashed for the million time. Despite
being against multi-tasking, he was still interested in getting someones
multi-tasking kernel and as for hi-res displays, at least Amiga owners
dont have to pull plugs out of their computers every 2 secs for the
second monitor they would have to buy!!  And as for Copper processing, well
a DMA channel devoted to a graphics co-processor must be better than not
having one.....so I presume that must simply boil down to jealousy. And as
for playing populous and running ray-tracing....well most games take complete
control of the computer for many reasons (not just for software protection)
and many professional packages such as pro-write, Excellence! and everything
that runs from Amiga dos can multi-task with other tasks.

Mark also likes Soundtracker, so much so he is searching every PD
software library in the land for it. His first introduction to this
program was on the Amiga....my Amiga (btw we live in the same flat!).
He's also quite excited about DPaint on the ST and has been ordering
many Amiga animations which have been converted (Walker Demo, The Chase
etc).

Another interesting point, we play Kick Off 2 quite a bit in our flat. 
We have both Amiga and ST versions of the game......and when I play
Mark..... 95% of the time it is played on my Amiga......and not the ST. Why?
Because the ST version runs in super-flicker head-ache mode!!!!! 

I believe in critical argument, after all freedom of speech is
fundamental to our very existence. But I would prefer to have a
qualified argument, and not some bandwidth wasting drivel. Secondly, I
was under the impression this was comp.sys.atari.st which is meant to be
about ST hardware/software/news/tips etc. From this, I find it very hard
to comprehend why the Amiga is a discussion point. And as for this rogue
Amiga person who has been sending unqualified messages, you have my
sympathy for his abuse of netiquette.

I have posted this message after my flatmate had a good chuckle about
what he had posted to the net (he refused to tell me himself). The message,
when I read it was nothing short of childish ignorance and I apologise to the
net on his behalf.

-=Andy=-