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From: jfe@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga and Mac emulation, too!
Message-ID: <1991Mar3.225636.3128@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 91 02:56:36 GMT
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My friend also owns an Amiga, and I played quite a few games on his machine.
In terms of game playing, yes, it's an awesome machine because it has separate
processors for graphic and another for sound.  But then again, if you want to
play games, why not get a Nintendo or a Sega?
I have been a Mac/apple user for six years, and I have to agree that Amiga just
doesn't feel right.  Mac seems to have "crispier" colours than Amiga.  Amiga
sort of looks like a souped-up C64.  Also Amiga 500 is not made to be
expanded.  If you want to add anything decent, you probably want to get a more
powerful power supply than the one they give you.  Also, Amiga does have Mac-
like operating system (workbench, as they call it), but so many programs are
not icon-driven.  Most of the programs use Amiga DOS which is no better than
MS-DOS.  Also my friend has about 100-150 games/productivity softwares in
their original floppies because they don't come along with special HD install-
ation programs.  Now that sucks.
In conclusion, if you want an awesome game machine, get a Nintendo or Sega.  If
you want to compute with that machine at the same time, get Amiga 2000 or 2500
or 3000.  But then again, by that time, you'd be shelling about enough cash
for an si or ci.
One thing I would like to mention, before I go, is Amax.  This is a Mac
emulation program for Amiga, and it emulates a Mac Plus.  It has trouble with
digitized sounds, and works only in the interlace mode, so it will kill your
eyes, but by golly, if you hook a Mac drive to an Amiga running Amax, you can
run just about anything that runs on a Plus.