Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!balboa.eng.uci.edu!nguyent From: nguyent@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Thien Nguyen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga and Mac emulation, too! Message-ID: <27D20AD2.18914@orion.oac.uci.edu> Date: 4 Mar 91 08:52:34 GMT References: <1991Mar3.225636.3128@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 73 Nntp-Posting-Host: balboa.eng.uci.edu In article <1991Mar3.225636.3128@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> jfe@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: >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? SEGA writes their games on acclearated Amigas. They were advertising it in Amiga World magazines!!! >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 Have you seen those new cheap macs from Apple??? Notice the way the arrow moves! It keeps on flashing. I use MAC IIs almost all the time at my work and at school! I wish I could use my Amiga instead. Look at it this way, Amiga needs nothing to emulate a MAC, while to emulate an Amiga, you need to add extra custom chips. By the way, you are comparing $2000 and up computers to $500 Amigas. A better comparison would be something like an A3000. I must admit that Amiga lacks some good productivity software, but it's not the problem with the hardware. I mean, I can run MAC softwares with a software emulator. There is a hardward only because MAC rom are illegal to copy onto disks!!! >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 Infact the new OS 2.x that came with the A3000 in my opinion is a better O.S. What about multitasking???? Almost all the productivity programs are icon driven! >their original floppies because they don't come along with special HD install- >ation programs. Now that sucks. Hm...Most of my productivity programs are on my harddrive. Some of the games can't be put on the harddrives because they are copy protected. >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. I would take my A3000 anytime over the 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. AMAX II supports digitized sound, harddrives, etc... The only thing right now is that AMAX support only 128K ROMS. But this will probably change with the MAC ROM clones from NuTek. Right now, AMAX runs very fast on my A3000. I would say faster than a IIci. AMAX can be made to run in non interlaced modes also. I get no flicker on my A3000 since it has flicker fixer built in. The reason for flickering is because Amigas are NTSC compatible out of the box. To fix the flicker, you can buy a card for about $250. How much does it take to make MAC NTSC compatible??? Multimedia = NTSC!!!