Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.misc:1334 comp.sys.mac.misc:9087 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!bronze!silver!amhartma From: amhartma@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Andy Hartman - AmigaMan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500) Message-ID: <1991Mar4.161529.17839@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: 4 Mar 91 16:15:29 GMT References: <1991Mar3.223546.12173@rice.edu> <1991Mar4.013846.26519@gsm001.uucp> <1991Mar4.030134.7183@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 49 God, I said that I wouldn't get into this... In article <1991Mar4.030134.7183@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> dbert@mole.ai.mit.edu (Douglas Siebert) writes: >I don't see why anyone thinks this is very unusual....after all, many of the >same people who designed the Amiga and made it what it is today also >designed the 8-bit Ataris. Both were designed with co-processors to take >the workload off the main CPU, and both were designed to be great with both >graphics and sound. Both similiarly have ignored getting their computers >recognized as being intended for very "serious" use. I still have a working >8-bit Atari which I still used occasionally up until a couple months ago when >I got my Mac. One of the main reasons I chose a Mac and not an Amiga w/Mac >emulation is that I remembered that trying to find *anything* software or >hardware wise for the Atari became all but impossible a couple years ago, >while the old Apple IIs are still alive (though barely!) Macs have found their >way into businesses and Universities, while Amigas, with few exceptions, >have not. Kind of agree on this, but not really. The Amiga and the Mac both have different places in business. The Mac is used by companies as a PC while the Amiga is used by universities as a UNIX box and by cable companies to control what you see on TV. Each has their place, but they are different. >Ten years from now, when the Mac "Classic" is a box containing a 80MHz >68040, 64M RAM and a 4G HD, Amigas will probably sit down in basements >like my 8-bit Atari does. With it's color graphics and co-processors to >support it's 1.79MHz 6502, it can play better games than my Mac Plus can. >But when I want to do serious work.... Boy, do I dare respond to this?!? YES! Do you really think that Apple is going to spend their money on upgrading the classic? I'm sure that that statement was meant in jest, but c'mon... This just shows the kind of infantile response as to a question of their computer's adequacy. As an reader of the Amiga boards, I've changed the distribution to the two main groups (c.s.a.m, and c.s.m.m) and redirected followups to comp.sys.amiga.advocacy. I would appreciate other posters doing the same. >Doug Siebert dbert@albert.ai.mit.edu AMH -- * Andy Hartman | I'd deny half of this crap anyway!| "Somedays, you just * Indiana University | amhartma@silver.ucs.indiana.edu | can't get rid of a * // Amiga Man | AMHARTMA@rose.ucs.indiana.edu | bomb!" * \X/ At Large! | or just "Hey putz!" | - Batman (original)