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- Path: nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!lolsen
- 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: 2 Apr 1996 14:23:27 GMT
- Organization: UNINETT news service
- Message-ID: <4jrd8v$3is@dole.uninett.no>
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- tempest@netins.net wrote:
- : In article <315a0646.3201934@news.onramp.net>, dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn) writes:
- : >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.
- : >
-
- : Oh god, the mighty Corn Man speaks again.. with his usual idiotic thinking.
-
- A matter of perspective.
- :
- : - No Amiga user on the planet has to us 640x200x4 colors.. You tell me
- : one single Amiga that is forced to use that mode? and can't use better?
- : Use your brain this time.
-
- A matter of perpective.
-
- : - Corn man, I have never in my life mentioned a TV hookup to a computer.
- : You are a moron as usual. I use SVGA Monitor thank you and would never
- : suggest using a TV... Try using some more brain cells..
-
- No wonder Amigaoids are usually painted as beeing
- quite self-centered.
-
- : - I Have never seen anyone use that mode, corn man, unless they wanted
- : to look at an ugly screen, you and others are just trying to be stupid,
- : like I said.
-
- Ditto you my man.
-
- : >>>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
-
- : What is 800x600 then? on a non-aga Amiga? Gee, not as smart as you
- : thought you were, are you. haha. :) You don't have a clue about the
- : AMiga.
-
- I think he has, although this whole argument seem to suggest
- you both have nothing better to argue about.
- Customized screenmodes or not, it's wholy a matter of perspective.
-
- : >owners didn't fiddle quite as much with it as I did.
- : >
-
- : Oh yeah, one must fiddle with an Amiga to use the STANDARD Amiga Preference
- : Program for overscan and screen mode. Yeah you are such a tinker toy to
- : have figured it out.. hahahahaha.. God how lame can you be.
-
- : >>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?
- : >
-
- : Of course I do, it is something I pluged into my Amiga, or I could buy
- : an Amiga with if I wanted to, already installed. And your almighty
- : point was supoose to be? Yes? what?
-
- Oh brother!
-
- : Ibm and mac os's are pathetic compared to Amiga OS. My Internet appliations
- : are very professional and do evertyhing I want them to and more. You havent
- : even seen them so you can't even make a valid point, as if you could anyways.
-
- A fine description of the Surf package and screenshots of it
- in use is readily available on the www.
-
- : >>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.
- : >
-
- : Yes guy, I did.. It is a simple operation, you first take the computer case
- : off, plug the card in, put the case beak on, install the driver software with
- : the install, and hey what do you know.. It is installed.. Your ibm is
- : pathetic to add hardware to.. Face it.. it is WELL KNOWN FACT!
-
- How can it a "FACT" when it is often no longer true.
- What elese than the device-driver did you say was installed
- again? Maybe some librarys, or some egs software too perhaps, +++..
- Not just "copy the device driver to the devs directory, and
- you are done" really.
-
- : >>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.
- : >
-
- : You are illiterate about everything. Ok so your ibm has had auto config
- : for 10 years? Gee the rest of the world must be wrong, and the rest of
- : the world must of been using a different machine.
-
- The rest of the world doesn't agree with you, sorry to say.
-
- : All plug and play crap cards today work great ?
-
- Not all, many.
-
- : They don't have problems
- : working?
-
- Sure, quite a few have.
-
- : Gee I suppose the millions that have problems really didn't..
-
- Millions? Speak for yourself.
-
- : Of course you know more than the rest of the world..
-
- And you do? As you seem to suggest.
-
- : >>>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...
- : >
-
- : or C) You have no clue and were lucky you didn't have a conflict like
- : the millions that are having problems with plug and pray junk.
-
- And I'm Jesus, rigth.
-
- : >>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.
- : >
-
- : Has tons of software and hardware, cost more but it is worth the cost.
-
- Based on what arguments?
-
- : You have always been clueless.. Your total joke comments about the AMiga
- : shows how cluless you are.
-
- And you're any different?
-
- : >>>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...
-
- : It failed to offer people what mircosoft claimed it would.. It is a crap
- : os like everything else they have put out.
- : As an OS, it is a failure.
-
- Based on what arguments?
- Cheers...
-