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- From: dejong@PROBLEM_WITH_YOUR_MAIL_GATEWAY_FILE (Maarten D. de Jong)
- 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
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.tech
- Date: 21 Jan 1996 19:36:05 GMT
- Organization: Delft University of Technology
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- Greg Thomson (kbull@garlic.com) wrote:
- : 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
-
- Personally, I don't give a damn for good and fast browsers, since my modem
- is a huge bottleneck. I prefer using good ole' telnet :). Manually, that is.
-
- : 2. Graphics cards are too expensive and they are not as fast as their PC
- : counterparts.
-
- CyberVision 64 uses the same hardware as current PC-cards. And do you really
- *need* 128-bit WRAM cards for fast Windows performance? Sounds like overkill
- to me :). Most people even don't have a matching monitor to display those
- HighRes modes.
-
- : 3. Amigas are expensive
-
- Yes, they are. But they don't require you buying a completely new setup every
- two years as well.
-
- : 4. They are not that easy to upgrade. Try adding a graphics card to an A1200
-
- Notebooks are not upgrades easily either. If you want upgradebility, buy
- an Amiga with Zorro-slots.
-
- : 5. They do not have a PCI bus
-
- Has advantages as well as disadvantages.
-
- : 6. There is no memory protection
-
- That is a severe disadvantage. I hate crashing computers. They always do it
- at the wrong place at the wrong time, and at the same time, it is so easy
- (well, ok, not *that* easy) to avoid it.
-
- : 7. Most games only run in 15 Khz mode because DBLNtsc is slow
-
- DBLNTSC isn;t slower, I thought. But those gamecoders shpould start practising
- OS-legal stuff. Like Civilization or something similar (being the only example
- I know of :)) )
-
- : 8. Amiga games suck compared to the onse in the PC world
- : 9. Sound on Amigas is very poor and 16 bit cards are too expensive (14 bit
- : is not that great)
-
- Yawn. How do you rate a game? Does it play well? Does it have nice gfx and
- a few cool sounds? Does it have you coming back for more? If so, then every
- game is good. Even if it were written on a ZX Spectrum. My favourites are old
- and probably long-forgotten (IK+, Rainbow Islands, Starray, Pinball Fantasies,
- Elite I and II), and somtimes I wish for more fancy graphics, but the gameplay
- can't be beaten, and that's what counts in my opinion. While I'm at it, does
- anyone know a few nasty cheats for Rainbow Islands? I keep getting creamed by
- that huge Dracula :(.
-
- : Here is why I think Amigas are good
- :
- : 1. Good multitasking
-
- Indeed. Though some intelligent timing (i.e. better priority control) would
- be nice :).
-
- : 2. Operating system does not waste resources like memory and processor
-
- Yup.
-
- : 3. A lot of free software
-
- No comment here.
-
- 4. Cool graphics programs ( which are now appearing on PC's)
-
- Can't really say much about this -- I don;t use many such programs.
-
- Maarten
-
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