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- From: etxdagr@tn.ericsson.se (Dan Green)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 13:01:34 GMT
- Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <4i3sje$fmq@erinews.ericsson.se>
- References: <1996Mar11.221045@cantva>
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- In article <1996Mar11.221045@cantva>, misc335@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes:
- >> : really suck with a few exceptions. They are still trying to come up
- >> : with a decent DOOM clone, while that game is old news to PC's. In
- >>
- >> If you want to play games, get a Playstation. It makes P6 166MHz systems
- >> look sad and it only costs 290UKP.
- >
- >No, the playstation certainly has the edge pricewise, but a p6 is quite a bit
- >better at graphics, (though to be fair, their are very few _games_ which
- >currantly take advantage of the power.) Anyway, this is irrelevant, as well as
- >consoles being limited to only games, the problem is that they only shine for a
- >few months and then you're stuck with a dated system.
-
- Are you kidding me? First of all, a P6 doesn't even do graphics on its own :)
- Second, a playstation can handle more textured polygons than a P6, ie. BETTER
- DOOM. You can't even compare the calculation power of the P6 to a graphics
- only processor.
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- /Dan
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