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From: tsl@netsys.UUCP (Tom Livingston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
Summary: bashing machine bashing
Message-ID: <2180@netsys.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 19:50:08 GMT
References: <2959@cbmvax.UUCP> <11191@oliveb.UUCP> <886@louie.udel.EDU> <3259@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <516@ra.rice.edu>
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In article <516@ra.rice.edu> phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
>In article <3259@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> davidli@umn-cs.UUCP (Dave Meile) writes:
>>
>>It's a nice fribjob, but not necessary to do stuff.  Lots of microcomputer
>>owners know that, but Amiga owners somehow don't seem to feel that the
>>other features of their computer are enough to REALLY make a home user
>>want to buy one.

    Wrong!  The Amiga has several nice features, so does the ST.  I
love my ST very much, but I'd also love to have an Amiga too!  It
does lots of things that the Atari can't, or won't.  But, of course,
We do have price in our favor.  (Note:  I haven't considerered the 
Amiga 500 yet, and it seems to be the most promising as for competeing
with the ST)


>WRONG!  There are other things about the Amiga besides multi-tasking that
>make it worth buying:  outstanding color graphics (specifically, HAM
>mode), the versatility made possible by the "copper" co-processor (I feel
>that we are currently only scratching the surface), outstanding sound,
>reasonable price, easy interface to current video technology (making
>things like "desktop video" possible).  I'd like to see Marble Madness!
>running on an Atari ST, or a Macintosh, or an IBM.  I don't think it would

  	That's true!  The Amiga does have impressive graphics --
But so does the ST, in it's own fasion.  We can do 512 colors at once
 (yes, I know, it's dificult), but we still can.  Both computers market
niche's are differen't.  Excuse me, how much did you pay for your Amiga?
I paid $839 for an Atari 1040ST with a color monitor, mouse, DS drive,
and 1 meg of memory.

>look nearly as impressive as it dones on the Amiga---with the exception of
>the Mac II (which is prohibitively priced anyway).  The same comment goes
>for Arkanoid.

	Aha!  But the Mac II is in a completely different class...
you've heared of the 68020, havent you?  It'll blow the ST or the
Amiga, or a normal Mac plain out of the water.
>
>The Amiga is not just a game-playing machine.  But the games serve as a
	Wasn't the Amiga first designed as an exsepnsive game playing
machine? Hmmm...

  	To everyone who actaully read this blatent spew of machine
bashing, I'm sorry.  I really should control myself more, and so should
other people.  Does everyone realise how long this has been going on???

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