Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!bagate!dsinc!unix.cis.pitt.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!sss10 From: sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Napalm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500) Message-ID: <1991Mar14.052507.19830@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 14 Mar 91 05:25:07 GMT References: <4239.27de4b9d@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <1991Mar13.234443.2281@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <7816@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Reply-To: sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Napalm) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 37 Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu In article <7816@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Kevin) writes: >>This whole Apple thread is becoming boring. Apple, THE COMPANY, stinks >>as far as their business ethics are concerned. Mac Classic, the computer, >>stinks as far as what you get with it for the price. >> >No, the A500 stinks as far as what you get with it for the price. You get >a 1 meg machine with no SCSI, no hard drive case or powersupply, no >networking, no ability to use SIMM memory (cheapest), an OS that may or may >not work with your software (you have to individually match your software to >a reliable OS), no ability to add IBM compatibility for $150, no 1.4 meg >drive, 1- Wrong. Applied Engineering has been making a High Density drive for all amigas for several months now 2- whoopee. HD disks are much more expensive. :-D 3- Workbench 1.3 is very reliable, 90% of all software out right now will work with it. If it doesnt work, its a very old game, from 1.2 or 1.1 days. You are thinking of Workbench 2.0 which should be out any day now, any day. 4- I dont understand your "Hard drive case or powersupply" whine but I can hook up a HD to my 500 rather easily. >no detachable keyboard (you must use the Amiga KB), 4 (he he) channel sound, whats wrong with 4 channel sound? >and not a respectable spreadsheet in sight. Well we can just use amax and run a mac spreadsheet then :-D >Ethics? Let's deal with Commodore corporate if you want to talk about dumb. >But are you saying Apple has no ethics because they are trying to protect >their intellectual property? hmm. No, they have no ethics because they are suing everyone over look and feel infringements. They are trying in styfling innovations and they have done a pretty good job of preventing Mac clones which enables them to charge the ridiculous prices that they have been charging for years. Commodore may not have been smart but they were never corrupt.