Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!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: <1991Mar30.062552.29242@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 30 Mar 91 06:25:52 GMT References: <1991Mar29.230632.7066@grebyn.com> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu In article <1991Mar29.230632.7066@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes: >>software on A500s with two floppy drives. It's a workstation. > >The Amiga 500 is a game machine. This has nothing watever to do with >the machine's technical capabilties, or what some minority of users does >with it. It is a game machine because of the mentality of the typical >user (remember that no one reading this message is a typical Amiga >user), because of Commodore's stillborn marketing efforts (at Christmas, >Commodore itself was comparing the A500 to the Nintendo), and only at >the last because of the original design goals. > >I too saw the original Amiga 1000 as a poor man's workstation, only >the market did not pan out. So now, while I'll grant the A2000 is a >video platform, the A500 is just a game console with a disk drive and a >keyboard. And nothing more. So if I buy an Amiga 500, add Bodega Bay, get a 68030 accelerator, 9MB RAM, a 1 Gig drive, an Optical Drive, the ICD FlickerFixer and 2MB Chip Ram addon, HAM-E/DCTV/ColorBurst/etc. and an external genlock, as well as lots of good software, oh yes, and don't forget the X-Windows and Ethernet board. After all this, is the A500 still a game-machine? If you label the machine based on the people that own it you simply justify the arguments of all the people who say the Amiga is a game-machine because 90% of Amigas are used as game machines. >-- >First comes the logo: C H E C K P O I N T T E C H N O L O G I E S / / > ckp@grebyn.com \\ / / >Then, the disclaimer: All expressed opinions are, indeed, opinions. \ / o >Now for the witty part: I'm pink, therefore, I'm spam! \/ -- Ethan Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb A: None. It's a hardware problem.