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From: ullevig@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Ullevig Zachary A)
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Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.022332.8904@csn.org>
Date: 4 Mar 91 02:23:32 GMT
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In article <1991Mar3.223546.12173@rice.edu> robbins@arcadien.rice.edu (Thomas Robbins) writes:
>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.
>

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
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
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.


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