Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!expert.cc.purdue.edu!blissmer From: blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Kevin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500) Message-ID: <7906@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 14 Mar 91 22:26:40 GMT References: <4239.27de4b9d@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <1991Mar13.234443.2281@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <7816@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1991Mar14.052507.19830@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Reply-To: blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Corey) Organization: Purdue University Lines: 37 >>No, the A500 stinks as far as what you get with it for the price. You get [stuff deleted] >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. My only point is that the A500 is a rip off. Yes, you can add a drive, case, and powersupply. But only at a price. For $499 you get a machine without a monitor, SCSI, HD case, SIMM memory, Appletalk(even cheapo Tandys have this). For $749 you get a classic with SCSI, appletalk, _monitor_, and a killer OS. There is no better buy today than the Classic. > >>and not a respectable spreadsheet in sight. >Well we can just use amax and run a mac spreadsheet then :-D Again, at additional cost. [stuff deleted] >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. They are suing two companies: HP & Microsoft. They are suing over a stolen look and feel. Commodore and NeXT were not sued, because they _innovated_ when they wrote their OS. Micosoft saw a good thing and xeroxed (pun intended) it. Apple is within their right (and duty) to protect the validity of their copyright on look and feel. Can you imagine a world where anyone could make a functional copy of Excel by analyzing the operation of it and release it as their own program without innovating. Look at Windows. Use it. Use a mac. Tell me Microsoft innovated.