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From: dsherif@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Darin D Sheriff)
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Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 4 Mar 91 19:24:18 GMT
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>Think about the target market for each machine.  The Amiga computers are not
>designed to be great computers, but they are designed to take a big chunck out

Come again??!!  Are you for real?  Could you explain how you arrived at your
conclusion?  

>of the game market.  They don't have much power, but they are given great
>graphics and sound to make for good game machines.  Macs are too expensive to

Obviously an opinion based on little or no knowledge of the subject at hand.
As for 'game machines'.  If people wants to make games for these machines
becuase their built in goodies makes them ideal for games, that's their affair.
The point I am trying to make is that their talents for graphics and sounds
can be, and are used for other purposes other than games.

>buy simply as a game computer, so less games are made for the macs and most
>mac users don't care that there are no graphics co-processors.

This is an assumption on your part.
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A list of all known amigas out there for those not in the know.
Commodore makes their amigas in several flavors,

Amiga 1000.  Discontinued but very usable.  (I still have and use one)

Amiga 500 (made for the average user in mind, though many professionals use
them as well. 

Amiga 2000 For the professional though many induviduals use them also.

Amiga 2500 and Amiga 3000 and Amiga 3000UX - These are very powerfull
machines comparable to the Mac II line.

There are many powerfull pieces of software and hardware that make use of 
these machines' capabilities.  Not that everything in Amigaland is a bed of
roses; its not, but in no respect are these machines inferior.

So my misguided friend, do some research before you post.
-- 
Darin Sheriff; Amiga 1000 owner.        dsherif@csserv2.ic.sunysb.edu
People don't pirate software.  Computers pirate software.
Disclaimer: It wasn't me.  It was Chucky.  He did it.