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- From: pwm5k@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Patrick William Mackin)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 03:16:25 GMT
-
- kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu writes:
- >
- > Do you really want to compare an interlaced graphics mode to SVGA? HAM
- > is so slow its basically unusable. Why is it that anything that the Amiga
- > doesn't have that every modern platform has, the Amiga doesn't need? One
- > minute Amiga users say "We don't need fast processors" and the next minute
- > you're bragging about Vapor-PowerAmiga.
-
- No, the AMIGA has about everything it needs now, except for a
- good custom graphics solution (ie custom chips? or gfx
- cards?). As soon as PPC Amiga is out (within a year, and they
- STILL don't have IBM PPCs!!! so I wouldn't compare your PC to
- the Amiga until one of us gets PPC!!!) it will be totally
- all-powerful!
-
- > Right/ What Web Browser for the Amiga supports frames, JavaScript, Java,
- > ShockWave, RealAudio, a VRML broswer, cookies, and the myriad of other
- > Netscape plug-ins.
-
- Oh, and Netscrape does all that, right?
- Whatever.
- Incidintally, I programmed a, what I though was nice, HTML 3
- page the other day. It looks great in IBrowse, or any of the
- *real* browsers that do not use their own proprietary markup
- language, but in Netscrape, NOTHING is contered, the images
- extend off the page forever, etc. etc. So I guess I'll have to
- ADD EXTRA code to the "SIMPLER" Netscrape format... At least
- until there is an official Amiga browser out of beta!
-
- > >I don't know quake or nascar. Do *you* know Worms? By chance I know the so-
- > >called "minimum resources" needed for this nice piece of gaming for the PC:
- > >386-40, 4 MByte RAM, CD-ROM. *ha!* I played just the same game on my friend's
- > >A500 (MC68000, 7 MHz, 512 KByte RAM, 1 floppy drive, no HD).
- >
- > You're comparing Quake and Nascar to Worms? Why would anyone care about
- > either a 386 or an a500? They are both old and outdated. What
- > difference does it make when people are buying $1100 PowerMacs and
- > Pentium systems?
-
- You're totally dodging the point. The point is that a game
- like Worms, which can run on a 7 Mhz, 1/2 MB RAM Amiga, is at
- least as good as the Crap that is out there for the pee cee.
-
- > You're bragging about this? For $1300 you can get a PowerMac 6116 with
- > 8Megs of RAM, a 500Mb Hard Drive, a good quality 14" monitor, a modem, a CD-ROM
- > drive, and loads of software
-
- I don't think so.
- If that were true, I think they would have a better market
- share than 7% or whatever. I mean, their 040 models used to
- cost $2000+ a year or two ago.
-
- > Besides the software, which you would have to pay extra for also, you can
- > get a dx/2-66 with all of the hardware you named for less than $1300 and
- > you would have a much faster system. Just look in Computer Shopper
- > sometimes.
-
- Eh?? Not with all that software he mentioned!! Most of which
- isn't even comparable on the PC (Scala, Photogenics, etc.)
- Then, you mention "speed" We Amiga users do not NEED a computer
- that "has more MIPS" than our next door neighbors.. We just
- need A BETTER machine.. With custom chips and premptive
- multitasking that DO NOT REQUIRE a 486 or Pentium to work!
-
- > >And you have a system that *creeps* along and that is not really supported
- > >any more because the market shifts to the Pentium/PCI. Duh.
- >
- > A dx/2-66 doesn't creep along at all. But if a dx/2-66 creeps, an Amiga
- > must run backwards.
-
- Uh, Using Windoze, especially 95, which is what will probably
- become the standard quite soon, it most certainly does crawl.
- My Amiga 3000 with a 25 mhz 030, ALWAYS has a speedy workbench,
- and I almost never get "low memory" messages, and if I do,
- that's cuz I've only got 4 megs. Try running Winslows on THAT!
-