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- Subject: Re: Alien Breed 3D & Worms, selling gooooood
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- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 00:00:00 GMT
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-
- : >People who buy machines without harddrive without any plans to
- : >upgrade are either just a bad joke, or more common, they don't know what
- : >their missing...
-
- : Or perhaps the machine should never have been sold without a HD in the first
- : place?
-
- A hard drive is without doubt essential for a serious computer user. Wether
- is comes standard, or is added later.
-
-
- : But seriously, wouldn't you like to see things like Dark Forces, Full
- : Throttle, Quake, etc. coming out for the Amiga? I would, and it galls me to
- : know my system is more than capable, but can only do it running a Mac
- : emulation.
-
- It would be great to have such games native. And similar games are being
- produced in limited numbers. Having the ability to emulate these from another
- platform isn't 'bad'. We still have access to them.
-
-
- : The machine is *far* worse for lack of advertising. Imagine if all the big
- : corporations were actively developing for the Amiga - LucasArts, Id, Lotus,
- : Microsoft (yes! It's not a dirty word), Netscape..
-
- I would love to see more developers jump back on the Amiga band-wagon. Yes,
- even Microsoft... but only for Microsoft Word.
-
-
- : We don't even have a decent web browser yet. That's a bloody embarrassment.
-
- Well, MindWalker is out. It is easily decent - unless you want to whine about
- it using MUI. Granted, I don't prefer it, but you asked for a decent Web
- Browser, not the 'ideal' best for your personal preferences Web Browser.
-
-
- : Where is RealAudio? QuickTime? So many things others take for granted are
- : completely missing for lack of public perception. Sure we *know* the machine
- : is capable, we've spent the bucks to bring it up to a useable level. But
- : without any kind of buzz, we're in a cul-de-sac. Sure, that's cool,
- : underground and vaguely dangerous, but I'd prefer to be able to talk to a PC
- : owner without dodging certain subjects!
-
- I relate. QuickTime is said to be ported (or mostly so) for the Amiga by
- Apple themselves. To be released on the Amiga at some point it is said. I
- would love to see RealAudio on the Amiga as well. I know that similar
- concepts have been dealt with (AmiPhone, etc), but RealAudio is needed (or
- something that does the same thing).
-
-
- : >>>3,5"HD (540 MB +++), 4 MB of RAM and a 030/50 MHZ prosessor it could be
- : >>>even better...
- : >>The A1200 is pretty much dead. An expanded one with an 030/50 and extra
- : >>RAM, plus a HD and CD-ROM is okay for a beginners system, but it's still
- : >>costing more than a 486, and does far less for the average punter (IMHO).
-
- : >An A1200/030-50/540MB 3,5"HD/2MBchip+2MBfast could easily been sold for
- : >500รบ i think, now the problem is that we'll have to pay for a stupid
- : >expansion card when the prossesor could have been on the motherboard etc...
-
- : For that price you can buy a decent DX4/100, and for 100 more, a nice '040
- : Macintosh.
-
- : I really think the machine needs an 040 for a base system these days.
-
- The more I read and see trends in the computer industry, I fear that if the
- March/April Amiga revealing doesn't include an 040 with 2MB Fast RAM included
- on the standard system (along with whatever other features they offer), it
- will not go over well. The CPU also needs to be upgradeable to a full version
- with MMU and FPU if the user chooses to do so, unless they include these
- things on the standard low-end Amiga which couldn't hurt other than a bit
- more cost to the consumer -- worth an extra $50-$80 in my opinion to have
- these come standard on our computers.
-
-
- Rob Bamford
- (wfblan@netcom.com)
-
- AMIGA - "Back for the Future!"
-
- PS. Amiga Technologies promised something BIG at the CeBIT show in March.
- While they may want to do something BIG at the World of Amiga in April
- now (thier own baby), it will be a huge negative blow if they totally
- back away from anything substantial at CeBIT. A proto-type revealing
- at CeBIT along with the modem Surfer packs being for sale would be nice,
- and then actually having the new Amigas for sale at the World of Amiga
- would make sense. (Somehow this sound like what may be planned).
- Commments?
-