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From: cm450s02@uhccux.UUCP (jeff t. segawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple stumbles...
Message-ID: <1043@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Nov-87 03:38:31 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  1 03:38:31 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Nov-87 07:12:41 EST
References: <716@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: cm450s02@uhccux.UUCP (jeff t. segawa)
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Keywords: Amiga

In article <716@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> ali@rocky.stanford.edu (Ali Ozer) writes:
>
>Go to an Amiga dealer sometime and look at how much software is out there ---
>certainly more than for a dead machine. 
>
I think you've just brought up the biggest problem I've encountered with 
the Amiga: SOFTWARE! Off and on, I've been following developments in 
the Amiga world, looking for an excuse to buy a second computer. Trouble
is, when I go to the software store, I generally see lots of IBM and Apple II
software, a fairly decent selection of Mac software, and if I see Amiga software
at all, it's usually in the cutout bins, and is almost always games, or maybe
some business software I've never heard of, and the business programs I've seen
don't seem to offer any advantages in terms of power, features or ease of use
over my existing Mac software, and more often than not, the Amiga software 
appears to fall far short of it's Mac counterpart. Amiga games, on the other
hand, can be very impressive. I've played Marble Madness and Mindwalker on
the Amiga and was very impressed. Great graphics and sound! Loved DPaint II,
also. Trouble is, I can't see spending $500+ to play games! The Amiga needs
some useful type of software that is unique, not a bunch of so-so programs
that look like they were ported over from other systems (and not very well). 
(And some of us aren't into programming, either). Even the original, 128K
Mac had some very real advantages in it's favor: It had an incredibly 
sharp display and software unlike anything I'd ever seen before--not only
nice to look at, but easy for even someone like me to use. Not only did 
it look like a lot of fun, but it could do things that my Apple //e and
the IBM PC I had wanted couldn't, like turn out dazzling reports and
the like, complete with graphics. And now, of course, there are new
toys like Hypercard. Haven't figured out what it is, exactly, but I'm
awfully impressed by what I've seen, and I've got a million ideas for
new stacks, just as soon as Apple sends me my copy.