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From: mpierce@ewu.UUCP (Mathew Pierce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.games,comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 4 Mar 91 06:34:58 GMT
References: <27253@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Mar3.223546.12173@rice.edu> <1991Mar4.022332.8904@csn.org>
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In article <1991Mar4.022332.8904@csn.org>, ullevig@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Ullevig Zachary A) writes:
> In article <1991Mar3.223546.12173@rice.edu> robbins@arcadien.rice.edu (Thomas Robbins) writes:
[stuff about how friends A500 w/ 68000 blows away own MacII in games deleteed.]
> 
> 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.
It's ignorant statements made by ignorant bozo's like the one above that get
flame wars going, so let me oblige you...bozo...  The amiga runs the same CPUs
as the Macs, so there is no power lacking there.  With the coprocessors working
in parrallel with the cpu, it's like two people working on a job instead of one.
Now you can't tell me that you by your little ol' lonesome can stack a truck of
hay faster than me and my able bodied brother, so don't go tellin' me that your
computer can draw stuff, access drives, access comunication ports, or what have
you faster than my computer with multiple processors on the job.  Now what do 
you think that great game playing machines have to be to be real fun??? They
got to have performance, the more the better!!  If your computer can't perform 
as well at games, while it's running a better CPU, you tell me - which 
machine is lacking in the power area???  I'll give you a hint - it starts with
M, and its name is part of the name of a big ol' greasey burger you can get at
a place that also starts with an 'M'. Got that.....bozo
Oh, here's the smiley so that I don't get flamed :^)
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> |        Zach Ullevig        |          "I like maxims that don't            |
> |   University of Colorado   |       encourage behavior modification."       |
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