Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:9116 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:975 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!ames!vsi1!sat!farren From: farren@sat.com (Michael J. Farren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500) Message-ID: <1991Mar04.230715.17126@sat.com> Date: 4 Mar 91 23:07:15 GMT References: <27253@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Mar3.223546.12173@rice.edu> Organization: SAT Lines: 30 robbins@arcadien.rice.edu writes: >What's the deal? My friend says that it's because it has built-in >graphics co-processors. It's partly that, and partly the fact that there hasn't been a great effort to do whiz-bang games for the Mac for the simple reason that they do not sell. Great sales figures for the Mac, for a game, are anything above 5,000 copies. A good Amiga game will sell that many copies in a week. The market for games for the Mac, for many reasons, is very limited compared to that for the Amiga - and the biggest reason is sheer cost. Yeah, your IIsi _could_ run games like "Lemmings" just fine - but how many of them are there out there, and how many of _those_ will buy a game? >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! All the more reason to buy one - and don't be too surprised if, once you have your hands on it, you find that it does a lot of things better than the Mac does - as well as not doing a lot of things as well. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Michael J. Farren farren@sat.com | | He's moody, but he's cute. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+