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From: nwickham@carina.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1991Mar05.080418.21396@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 08:04:18 GMT
References: <1991Mar4.030134.7183@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <19467@cbmvax.commodore.com> <227@atacama.cs.utexas.edu>
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In article <227@atacama.cs.utexas.edu> jonabbey@cs.utexas.edu (Jonathan David Abbey) writes:
>In Reply To: raible@cbmvax.commodore.com
>
>
>Commodore's greatest problem now, of course, is finding a way to solve
>practical problems with the machine in such a stunning fashion that it is
>compelling to buy the Amiga over a Mac or PC compatible.  A rather difficult
>(some would say nigh impossible) proposition, all things considered.  The Amiga
>may well end up an Atari 800 ten years from now, granted.  But it will not be
>because the original Amiga team wanted to make a game machine, but because the
>original Amiga team wanted to make a personal computer, rather than a business
>computer.
>
>
Oh, ...somehow I'm not too worried.  Mac is well emulated, ...that has to bug

whoever is about to buy a Mac.  MSdos is old and clunky, Windows blew new life

into it but as people become more familiar with computers they will see the 

short commings of msdos.  I'm sure, however, that IBM will always be the leader

in anything computer.  Call me crazy-happy, call me un-Amgian, but I think it

looks pretty bright for Amiga.  Graphics, sound, ...makes for a friendly 

interface that will probably continue to be exploited by programeres.  Also,

you know, I'll bet the toaster gives Amiga a lot (mucho) free press.  We're 

all going to start seeing stuff in video and on TV produced on Amiga with

the toaster and we're sometimes going to get a look behind the sceens on how

it was done. ...especially since this new "video literacy" concept is for

real.  Also, what does millions of TVs, millions of VCRs, millions of cam-

corders, and the video toaster add up to anyway?


And, boy, I saw a 3000 for the first time the other day and it is nice.  As

nice (with all the technical connotations) as a system as I've seen. ...I

think it looks pretty good for Amiga.  I'd buy stock if I had any money.

(I'm just a student.)

                                       NCW