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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.tech
- Subject: Re: Why Amiga sucks and why it does't
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 12:28:49 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4dnv9h$fja@serpens.rhein.de>
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- kbull@garlic.com (Greg Thomson) writes:
-
- >Ok, here is why I think Amigas, includeing my A1200 with a 50 Mhz 030 and
- >16 megs of ram suck:
-
- >1. Good and fast browsers do not exist
-
- Correct. Will change in the future though.
-
- >2. Graphics cards are too expensive and they are not as fast as their PC
- > counterparts.
-
- Same as for Mac. I bet Macs do suck too.
-
- >3. Amigas are expensive
-
- Correct.
-
- >4. They are not that easy to upgrade. Try adding a graphics card to an A1200
-
- Wrong. Try adding a graphics card to an A4000. According to your
- argument notebooks suck too because you cannot add a graphics card.
-
- >5. They do not have a PCI bus
-
- You think of a mysterium. A PCI bus alone won't help you and some PCI
- implementations are pretty bad.
-
- >6. There is no memory protection
-
- Neither is there for Windows.
-
- >7. Most games only run in 15 Khz mode because DBLNtsc is slow
-
- Wrong. Most games only run in 15 Khz mode because c00l c0d3rz do
- not support other modes and this is the LCD. Since most fast games
- use Low-Res displays DblNTSC wouldn't be any slower than NTSC.
-
- >8. Amiga games suck compared to the onse in the PC world
-
- If you want 3D texture-mapped games then this is true.
-
- >9. Sound on Amigas is very poor and 16 bit cards are too expensive (14 bit
- > is not that great)
-
- Wrong. The average game player just uses cheap speakers and so there is
- hardly a difference between 8bit and 16bit. The real difference is that
- Amiga games do not come on CD and therefore don't have that much quality
- sound data.
-
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- Michael van Elst
-
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