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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
- 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: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 00:50:32 GMT
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- On 24 Mar 1996 06:01:09 GMT, tempest@netins.net wrote:
-
- >Starts at? What exactly do you mean by starts at? 640x200x4 colors nobody
- >uses, why would they when they can use more? Again you are either trying
- >your best to be stupid or it comes natural for you.
-
- Either you believe everyone has an AGA Amiga with sw flickerfixer, or
- A3000 w/hw flickerfixer, or you're just whining. I have this
- overwhelming impress you speak out of one side of your mouth when
- talking about Amiga prices (ie no monitor - use your TV!) and another
- when telling me "no one" uses 640x200x4.
-
- >>640x400x256 colors. It's a joke. No OLE, no Internet, no networking,
- >
- >Max? Again you are the joke. 640x400? max? No you are clueless to Amiga
- >standard resolutions (without gfx card). 800x600 / 724x566 , depending
- >on the monitor driver you use, these are the max resoultions with no
- >flicker. Higher iwth flicker. With a gfx card however they are the same or
- >greater than whatever you use on an ibm (which is using a gfx card lamer)
- >Don't show such ignorance.
-
- It's no ignorence. Everything else is a customized graphics mode.
- The 640x400 is the maximum practical non-overscanned resolution of the
- non-AGA Amiga. Yes, my Amiga did 724x484, but I suspect most Amiga
- owners didn't fiddle quite as much with it as I did.
-
- >My Amiga is doing 1280x1024x256 colors, or I can go to 800x600 in 16.7 milion
- >colors. These are non-interlace modes.. Take out your graphics card in
- >your ibm and tell me how great your resoultion and color is. :)
-
- :) You have a graphics card?
-
- >No internet? No Networking? My Amiga networks and surfs just fine. Again
- >you don't have a clue.
-
- It's pathetic compared with what's on the PC. If you think otherwise
- you just haven't seen anything other than Netscape. Try webbing over
- to www.windows95.com.
-
- >You plug hardware in on an AMiga, copy the device driver to the devs directory,
- >and you are done.
-
- Really? You're telling me that's what you did to get the graphics
- card working? I don't think so.
-
- >on ibm you must also copy software to the computer and then fuck with it for
- >a week, even plug and pray shit. After this week, if you are lucky, it will
- >work. I think Amiga's autoconfig is 100000000x nicer, easier, and hey it works!
-
- Nah. I just added a NIC to a friend's Toshiba 486/50 machine. As
- soon as I plugged the card in, it was configured. Hot swapping, too!
- (It was a PC Card.) No Amiga offers that.
-
- >Amiga's 10 years ago had better auto config than ibm's have today still. Don't
- >even try to compare. Most Plug/Play hardware dont autoconfig, it is a joke.
-
- You're PC illiterate.
-
- >>Absolutely false. I recently added a CDROM to my system. I stuck it
- >>in, connected it, and turned the machine on. With no interaction on
- >>my part, it found the CDROM, and I then saw it as another drive
- >>letter. Case closed.
- >
- >It is not false acorn, half the time someone tries to add hardware that is
- >suppose to be worry free plug and play, it takes just as long as it use to, or
- >doesnt even work. Adding hardware to ibm's is a joke, even with the failed
- >plug and play crap.
-
- Works perfectly for me. Hmm...perhaps either A) I know what I'm doing
- or B) I've actually -done- what I'm describing. Maybe both...
-
- >Lets see.. I can get an Amiga 3000 with 060 50mhz processor board for
- >about $1600. That is not bad in my book. I consider that very cheap.
- >Even if you can get ibm pentiums cheaper, who cares.. they suck. I am
- >willing to pay any price to have a quailty computer system without the
- >crap you have to put up with on ibm's and mac's. They just don't compare
- >to an Amiga.
-
- Putting up with crap is why I got sick of the Amiga. No software, no
- hardware, too expensive.
-
- >>offered in Win95 aren't understood by you?
- >
- >Windows 95 was a failure. It didn't stand up to the claims of microsoft and
- >has proven once again how poor their quality is.
-
- You still haven't told me how it's failed...
-