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Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 15 Mar 91 05:26:27 GMT
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In article <7906@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Corey) writes:
>>>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 <its 1.5 megs>
>>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.

scuse my ignorance but what is apple talk? for $500 you get a 1/2 meg amiga. 
ive seen advertisments for 1 meg amigas for about the same price though thats
usually Montgomery Grant or other mail order houses. There are a plethora of 
monitors available for the amiga. the 1084S is probably the most commonly
purchased one for the 500 and I do agree its expensive <~$300> but to compare
it to the mac monitor, you can get a b&w monitor for barely $200 and it will be
larger than the Mac monitor. 

>>>and not a respectable spreadsheet in sight.
>>Well we can just use amax and run a mac spreadsheet then :-D
>
>Again, at additional cost.

for ~$1000 a person can run Amiga software and whatever software works on a Mac
plus <provided you find the roms to the mac>. Thats close to list price for the
classic <which is very close to that mac plus>