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- From: lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen)
- 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?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 15:38:28 GMT
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- David Corn (dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:
- : On 24 Mar 1996 06:01:09 GMT, tempest@netins.net wrote:
-
- : >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.
-
- How about 640x512...? ;P
-
- : Yes, my Amiga did 724x484, but I suspect most Amiga
- : owners didn't fiddle quite as much with it as I did.
-
- But now they do, and 800x600I is quite usable.
-
- : >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.
-
- What exacly are you refering to?
-
- : >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.
-
- Basicly this is all you'd have to do, if they (the producers)
- didn't feel you also need as much flexibility as possible.
-
- : >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.
-
- But try convincing him of it...
-
- : >>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...
-
- But, I tried installing a Mitsumi Q-speed on a Win95 Siemens
- P133 the other day, and it removed my mouse-driver.
- After I reinstalled the driver it worked fine, right up until
- the moment when my senior officer rebooted the machine and the
- mouse was dead again.
- He is NOT a computer illiterate but ended up reinstalling Win95.
- No virus that we're aware of - go figure...
-
- : >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.
-
- Microsoft are less "crappy" you feel?
- Cheers...
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