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- From: Phil Shimmin <phils@ic.ac.uk>
- 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: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 12:59:00 +0000
- Organization: Imperial College, London, UK
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- References: <1996Mar11.221045@cantva> <4i3sje$fmq@erinews.ericsson.se>
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- Dan Green wrote:
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > /Dan
- Yeah, but to be fair, I own a playstation and have played Doom, and it
- is limited due to the lowish amounts of memory. Walls are missing, bits
- of levels aren't there etc. I love the playstation, and would much
- rather own one than a peecee (its so much more fun) despite my love of
- strategy games. But it is going to struggle with bigger games. God knows
- how they're planning to do Duke Nukem 3d. The PSX could easily handle
- the graphics (and I mean /easily/), but the levels are so goddam big.
- Anyway, why are we talking abou this ? This is an Amiga group surely.
- Sad pc people, stop trying to justify yourselves and go struggle with
- your system ;-)
-
- Phil
-