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- From: "TOMMY K. HWANG" <thwang@home.mysolution.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.tech
- Subject: Re: Why Amiga sucks and why it does't
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 19:06:59 -0500
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- Alan L.M. Buxey wrote:
- >
- > Greg Thomson posted the following:
- > : Ok, here is why I think Amigas, includeing my A1200 with a 50 Mhz 030 and
- > : 16 megs of ram suck:
-
- A1200... that console? Ofcourse..
-
- > : 2. Graphics cards are too expensive and they are not as fast as their PC
- > : counterparts.
- >
- > The CyberVision 64-bit S3 h/w is exactly the same as for PCs...
- > Dumb question and answer... A1200 do not have Zorro
- slots. It would not work anyway. Expansion for Zorro costs
- as much as boxed Amigas if it even exists on the market.
-
-
- > : 3. Amigas are expensive
- >
- > so? so are pentiums etc..
-
- I've spend over $10,000 on a pentium (HW and OS only)
- and you say Amiga is expensive?
-
- > : 4. They are not that easy to upgrade. Try adding a graphics card to an A1200
- >
- > They are very easy to upgrade - depends what type you have....ever tried
- > adding a gfx card or HD control card to a PC notepad ? ;)
-
- Exactly the point.
-
- > : 5. They do not have a PCI bus
- >
- > so? Zorro-III is better at certain things, and not all PCI things are
- > wonderful.
- >
- > (PCI will soon be outdated anyway...)
-
- So will ZorroIII... ne?
-
- > : 6. There is no memory protection
- >
- > Most Amigas are not used in circumstances where this is neccesary.
-
- I still have problem with this memory protection thing..
- Are you guys talking about those ECC ram? or something odd...
-
- > : 7. Most games only run in 15 Khz mode because DBLNtsc is slow
- >
- > not at all - because they are c00/_ |>oo|>Z, thats why - hardware
- > hitting tends to require 15KHz basic mode.
- >
- > : 8. Amiga games suck compared to the onse in the PC world
- >
- > - depoends what you are going for...if you want 3D texture mapped games,
- > then gloom deluxe and breathless are just as good as their PC
- > counterparts and vertically scrolling shottemups dont seem to exist on
- > the PC at all!! (there is also a lack of platform games.... 8-)
-
- Is this all you use your PC for? I wish I have the time
- and $$, especially a simple commercial program for PC generally
- costs $1000.00-$2000.00 for me (I use SVR4 and NeXT on my PCs
- BTW).
-
- > : 9. Sound on Amigas is very poor and 16 bit cards are too expensive (14 bit
- > : is not that great)
- >
- > purely subjective - compare 2 games side by side - the sound isnt poor,
- > its stereo at over 20 KHz and can be (depending on the coders) 8 channel
- > 12-bit etc...
-
- For all practical (eg. non game) purposes, Amiga sound
- do need major improvements. I personally have an Atari that
- will be dedicated to sound now.
-
- -ME
-