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- From: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
- 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: 20 Mar 1996 20:06:52 GMT
- Organization: Video On Line
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- >>Dennis Lee Bieber (wulfraed@kd6mog.netcom.com) wrote:
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- >>: That seems to disagree with the history that was always reported
- >>: when
- >>: the Amiga first came out -- that the hardware (custom chips) WERE being
- >>: designed for a super game machine, and only later did the thought of
- >>: making it a full-fledged computer come up. And shortly after that, CBM
- >>: bought up the Amiga designers to bring it to market.
-
- True, the so called project "Lorraine". :) old times gone.. =|~(
-
- >So lets make a comparison.
-
- >GAMES MACHINE = High Speed Animation, Low CPU Loading (thanks to chipset),
- > Pre-emptive Multitasking, and an Efficient Operating System
- > to tie it all together.
-
- >Full Fledge Computer = High Speed Animation, Low CPU Loading, Pre-emptive
- > Multitasking, and an Efficient Operating System to tie it
- > all together.
-
- >Funny how that works. The things you need for a good games machine are the
- >same things you needin a "real" computer. Games are harder to program than
- >business software. And the Amiga is still the best games machine around.
-
- Hmm? ;-<
-
-
- >By The Way ..... For the record, Jay Miner (as well as others) designed the
- >Amiga to become "the ultimate in home flight simulation" and it was always
- >going to be a computer.....(Want another interesting discussion.....I can
- >tell you why the Amiga has more in common to the Atari 8 bit, than it does
- >the CBM 64....)
-
- The Amiga was planned to be a dreamy home computer and/or console (with the
- same hardware).. it was just the product of the mind and the heart of great
- humans and designers.
-
- Now Escom wants to transform its hardware in a PC with just a different CPU
- (I know the PowerPC programming, and IMO it's the worst RISC available, even
- less "nice" to program than a lame 80x86 CISC. It's sufficient to say that
- PowerPC has been designed by IBM corporation).
-
- Only Escom managed to kill the *real* Amiga, to sell PC clones under the name
- of "PowerAmiga".
-
- Nothing to add.... =~(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
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- >--
- > />
- > /> Michael M Brockman, mikey@scinter.AFTAC.GOV
- > />
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- > \> Have you ever been cruising on the Information
- > \> Superhighway, just to pause and take a whiz?
- > \>
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- | Fabio "Maverick" Bizzetti - bizzetti@mbox.vol.it - Maverick* at IRC |
- | The maker of "CyberMan" and "Virtual Karting" |
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