Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release Message-ID: <48467@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 5 May 91 19:56:22 GMT References: <47889@ut-emx.uucp> <47946@ut-emx.uucp> <6o6G#_oz1@cs.psu.edu> <48101@ut-emx.uucp> <48163@ut-emx.uucp> <+b5G-i&-1@cs.psu.edu> <48228@ut-emx.uucp> <48297@ut-emx.uucp> <8b6Gw!m+1@cs.psu.ed Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 35 In article <8b6Gw!m+1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >In article <48297@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes: > > That's certainly not the case with the Amiga. > >Then why isn't there more software other than games? If it's so easy, >maybe you can convince Lotus to port Improv to the Amiga. You _don't_ have a clue, do you? I'll give you an example of how much software (i.e. not games) exists for the Amiga. Take _just_ the public domain stuff. Now, a man named Fred Fish has taken upon himself to collect PD software and distribute it in a library of disks called Fish Disks (praise Fred!). Currently, there are 480 of these 880K disks full of software written by Amiga users around the world, of which a very small percentage is games (less than 10% easily). The Fish archive represents at most about 60% of the actual PD software out there for the Amiga. Now, go to a dealer. Generally, they have one wall committed to games and another committed to productivity software. You should _really_ look at what you are talking about before making such moronic statements. You may think that most Amiga software is just games, but you'll have a hard time convincing the several hundred disks and 140MB hard disk I have sitting here of that. At most I have 20 floppies and _maybe_ 15MB on my HD filled with games. Everything else is either apps, music, or graphics. Greg -- Greg Harp |"I was there to match my intellect on national TV, | against a plumber and an architect, both with a PhD." greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu| -- "I Lost on Jeopardy," Weird Al Yankovic