Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: New baseline Amiga? Message-ID: Date: 7 May 91 11:09:07 GMT References: <58430@sequent.UUCP> <1991Apr30.225022.372@mac.cc.macalstr.edu> <1991May4.193613.6143@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1991May5.114613.24114@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 53 In article <1991May5.114613.24114@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <1991May4.193613.6143@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> mike@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Smithwick) writes: >> a hyper-quantum defoobilizer... > >No, no, it needs a dilithium containment chamber! > >> I still think that >> an Amiga cartridge based game machine would be a winner. > >Great minds think alike. 512K of RAM, or 1M? After all, it does have the ROM >in the cartridge to hold code, >512K would probably never be used even by the >folks who JPEG compress disks within an inch of their lives. > >> mouse, or disk-drive, just a small, slick looking box with a cartridge >> port (and possibly other ports so a person could turn it into a real >> computer). It could use the CDTV IR controller to bridge the two products. > >Basically a 500 w/o keyboard and a cartridge slot where the disk drive goes. >Leave the expansion slot on the other side, it's effectively free. How about a CD ROM drive instead of the cartridge slot? Then you've got CDTV, which already exists. The drawback to CDTV is that it will be 10 years :) before it is as cheap as a Genesis or SuperFamicom. By the way, the Genesis joystick/controller works great on the Amiga, and it gives you a joystick and 4 buttons... Once upon a time I used to ask a couple of trivia questions (no longer true...) Q1. What computer company has sold more computers in the world than any other? Q2. What piece of software exists on more machines than any other in the world? A1. Commodore (C64) A2. MicroSoft Basic (C64) The answers today are: A1. IBM PC/Clone A2. MS DOS If the A500 (or a cheap game machine version) sold at $150, the situation would change drastically. >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************