Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu!v092mgp5 From: v092mgp5@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott K Wood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: IBM a great game machine Message-ID: <45803@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 12 Nov 90 21:08:35 GMT References: <9240@aggie.ucdavis.edu> <11479@hubcap.clemson.edu> Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Reply-To: v092mgp5@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 52 Nntp-Posting-Host: ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4.3 In article , tjantune@niksula.hut.fi (Timo Jantunen) writes... [stuff deleted] >If the CPU is 20Mhz 80386 it is about 3 to 6 times faster than 8Mhz 68000 >it has more time to do all things. Of course Amiga special hardware can >do things faster, for example blitter can move data more quickly than 386. >If PC has some sound card, it can handle music through it (and if one >plays with PC he HAS a sound card). > > >The games available for PC are also diffrent from those available for Amiga. >For PC is more RGB or simulator -style games, for Amiga more arcade style >games. > >PC is better for playing such games, because almost all PC:s have hard disk, >so multiload games are more fun to play (or do anyone play Ultima VI >with 7 DD disks?), and almost any game can be installed to hard disk. >Simulators are also faster (of course if one has a fast PC). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sure, a simulator on a 20Mhz IBM might be a bit faster than the Amiga, but it had better be! The a machine that fast is running almost 3 times faster. I still find it humorous that it takes such a fast IBM to even compete with the 8Mhz Amiga. NOTHING compares to the Amiga for games. After all, the Amiga INITIAL purpose was to be a blow-'em all away game system. >Another problem in Amiga is pirates (it's not Amigas fault, but still), >which are now slowing Amiga games production. As if piracy isn't a problem in the IBM community...! Piracy of IBM games is AS rampant as piracy of Amiga games in Europe. It's a fact. It's not that amiga games production is slowing, it's just that developers are producing more games for the PC's than the Amiga. What their logic is behind that is beyond me! > >Amiga has it's special hardware what it comes to music and graphics, so >it is _MUCH_ better in games that uses them (fortunately most games aren't >anymore translated directly from ST). Amiga is superior to all other computers >in this area (for example Shadow of the Beast is impossible to translate to >any other machine, without loosing it's 'spirit'). > What game DOESN'T use music and graphics? The Amiga is superior in the area of games! True, there are a lot of PC games that are not out for the Amiga, but this doesn't mean that the PC is better for games! Scott BITNET : v092mgp5@ubvms.bitnet INTERNET : v092mgp5@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu