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From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <16661@chopin.udel.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 91 04:36:51 GMT
References: <7906@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1991Mar14.233243.29563@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <7920@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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In article <7920@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Corey) writes:
>> Color is extra for the Classic. Performance is slow. No animation or sprites.
>>HD is extra.
>
>HD is _less_ extra than for the 500.  SCSI is there. A 40 meg is $199 total for the mac.

	What's the point in having the SCSI controller without a drive?  You're
paying extra for something you're not using.  You'll also be getting a very
fast, DMA-driven HD on the Amiga (unless you buy a really cheap controller)
vs. a slow, CPU-polled drive on the Mac.

>
>Well actually this is a very serious point about the Amiga.  The main reason
>"big" software developers ignore the amiga.  The Amiga has the most pirates
>of any platform.  They don't pirate to "try and buy".  They just pirate.

	Most pirates of any platform?  Funny, our local Computerland no longer
carries Mac software... the reason?  Doesn't sell.  Too much piracy.  Their
Amiga software, on the other hand, is doing quite well.  On what are you basing
your "facts"?  Are you trying to tell us that <2.5 million Amigas have more
piracy in their community than the tens of million of PCs out there?
Games happen to be one of the Amiga's strengths, and obviously the game
market is likely to be the one most heavily pirated.  But I'd guess (note
that I'm not blatantly claiming my assumptions to be fact) that in the
area of professional level software, the Amiga is much less pirated 
(percentage-wise) than the Mac and PC markets where millions of people
just bring home their software from the office without a second thought.
	The main reason the big software developers ignore the Amiga is that it has
that Commodore name associated with it.  For the most part this is a very
out-of-date attitude, as CBM as a company has really gotten its act together.
	Pirates on any platform are about equally likely to "try and buy"...
i.e. ~0% chance...


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