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Subject: Re: I want to buy a new computer!
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Date: 29 Mar 89 19:23:46 GMT
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From: omni!emh@stag.UUCP (Eric Hopper)

In Message <15996@cup.portal.com> Sentry (Marcus Hungor Tran)  writes:

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> Atari forgot to put in the ST) and stereo monitor. Most games for Amiga 
> are in stereo and have digitized sounds, taking advantage of the voice
> synthensizer which the Atari doesn't have.  Sounds like I'm bias toward
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> not available in ST format.  Of course, being a sucker for digitized sounds,
> I would like to start buying more games for the Amiga.  NOTES: I'm speaking 
> as a GAMER now: get the Amiga (ooh, that hurts! Sorry Atari)

	Atari games are starting to have digitized sound now, and stereo
sound is only a tweety board away, but Atari graphics aren't QUITE as good
as Amiga graphics.  I think that as far as a game machine is concerned the
Amiga is the way to go, but if you want a serious computer, especially for
sound applications, get an Atari.  With it's built in Midi port, you can
have Hexadekaphonic sound, it is sad to see that the Amiga has no such
capability. If I'm not mistaken, there are even a few games which use the
Midi port. (For those who aren't up on their Latin, Hexadekaphonic sound
is sixteen channel.)

	Oh, yes. I haven't mentioned one other application of the Midi
port. One of the funnest games I have ever played is called Midi Maze.  It
sets you, and a whole slew of human opponents (Up to sixteen) in a 3-d
maze. The object of the game is to move around the maze and shoot all the
other happy faces (other players) into oblivion. This game uses the midi
port for cheap networking.  I haven't seen any multiplayer games of this
scope outside of a mainframe.

Have fun,

Eric Hopper (Omnifarious) Don't try to send to emh@omni.uucp, because omni
is completely unkown to any system except stag.
omni!emh@stag.UUCP  or  ....{rosevax, ems, umn-cs}!pwcs!stag!omni!emh
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