Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Lemmings - a tutorial Part IV Message-ID: <1991Mar29.045659.17128@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 29 Mar 91 04:56:59 GMT References: Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu In article mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: > >The Amiga 500 is not a workstation. It is a game machine just like the >Nintendo or the Genesis. 90% of people who have Amiga 500's just stick >floppies in and reboot. > That is the same line of reasoning that the Mac owners use when they call the Amiga a game machine. They say how many Amigas are just playing games. In Britain, 90% of the Amigas sold were A500s. So by your argument we can generalize the whole Amiga as a game machine. Just because people USE it as a game machine doesn't mean it is. There are people who own XTs and ATs and simply play games on them. Does that make the PC a game machine? I DON'T THINK SO! 8-) Besides, there are a lot of expansion possibilities for expanding the A500. In fact, it is ALMOST as expandable as the 2000, so is the 2000 a game machine? Sorry for the tirade, but when I hear Amiga owners using the same logic that other computer owners use against us, it bothers me. -- Ethan Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb A: None. It's a hardware problem.