Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cc.curtin.edu.au!cutmcvax!amuser From: amuser@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Bill Sharp-Smith AUG) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: Date: 4 Jun 91 08:08:39 GMT Article-I.D.: cutmcvax.amuser.676022919 References: <6678@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Sender: news@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Usenet News System) Organization: Curtin University of Technology, Computing Science Lines: 42 Nntp-Posting-Host: cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey) writes: >I am worried. Seems like everyday some new gee-whiz add-on for the IBM >comes out to improve it's graphics and sound. Seems the price for >faster IBMs is dropping so low that fast Amigas can't compare. The big >business software makers continue to ignore us and Commodore shows no >signs of putting out an improved chip set or marketing of any major >effort. >The most amazing thing I have seen on the Amiga in recent memory is >the Video Toaster which I have no use for. All the graphic's add-ons >can't be used with Workbench let alone a good game. Maybe my >priorities are screwed up, but I'd LIKE to have 256 Colors in my video >games. I'd LIKE to have games support the three button Sega Genesis >pad (not hard to do, but no one is doing it.) I'd LIKE to have more >than 4 voices available when I write songs without resorting to MIDI. >None of this stuff is available and none appears to be on the horizon. >Windows working well enough to make it easy to use the IBM. >It's a damn shame too. I've tried to be optimistic about it, but the >more I wait, the darker the future seems. Just lately I'v been feeling the same way. I'm not likely to go to another platform until something better comes along. I don't believe in going for a platform that is already >5 years old such as the Mac or PC, but if something new came along designed with similar ideals to the Amiga, but with todays technology, I'd probably buy it as soon as I could afford to. Even the Amigas 'advantages' in multi-media are looking silly in the face of 24-bit full motion video cards from Apple & IBM. I know there is a big price difference, but the difference is getting less and soon the difference will be worth it for a far nicer display. Also, wait till you see what Apple is doing with Multimedia. It also makes tha Amiga look a little silly. (I can't say any more.) In many areas, the only advantage the Amiga has now (or will have in the near future), is price... :-( Amiga Users Group of Western Australia.