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From: robbins@arcadien.rice.edu (Thomas Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.games,comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Summary: Should die-hard mac-user buy A500 for games?
Message-ID: <1991Mar3.223546.12173@rice.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 91 22:35:46 GMT
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First of all, this is not intended to start a flame-war, merely some
observations I've noted with a request for informative comments.

I have been a die-hard Macintosh user for five years now, leading
me to drop $5 K for a new Mac IIsi (the 20MHz 68030). I have been
very pleased with _productivity_ software for what I do, which is
university engineering work. I'm very pleased with:
  -Mac OS
  -Microsoft Word 4.0
  -Excel 2.2
  -MacDraw II
  -Matlab (Mac II version)
  -Mathematica (Mac II version)
  -Cricket Graph 1.3

However, I'm disappointed with the entertainment/sound/video. I have
just been shocked at seeing a friend's Amiga 500, with its mere 7MHz
68000, for crying out loud, BLOW AWAY my 68030 Mac with the Amiga video
clippings, sound/music emulation, and GAMES. (The color version of
Falcon put my Mac version to shame!) And he had *hundreds* of cool
games compared to maybe 4 comparable Mac games.

What's the deal? My friend says that it's because it has built-in
graphics co-processors.

I'm actually considering buying one of these, to supplement my mac.
(Heaven help me--a machine with DOS!) IS IT WORTH IT? I would use it
only for games, but I worry at buying a machine that's already four
years old, what with computer equipment being obsolete even before the
ink on your check is dry. And heck, it's only about the price of a good
modem!

Thanks in advance for your help.

--
Tom Robbins                   | "No, it's 'Blessed are the meek.'  I think
robbins@owlnet.rice.edu       |  that's nice, 'cause they really have a hell
Senior, Chemical Engineering  |  of a time."     
Rice University               |  - someone in the crowd in "The Life of Brian"