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- From: jrstrai@freeway.net (jrstrai)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why Amiga sucks and why it does't
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 14:15:33 GMT
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- >In article <2706.6597T1287T896@freeway.net> jrstrai@freeway.net (jrstrai)
- >writes:
- >:>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:
-
- >:>: 1. Good and fast browsers do not exist
-
- >: So what? Good and fast Operating Systems do not exists for PC's!
-
- >What kind of a response is that? He has a valid point - there just *isn't*
-
- That kind of response is - so what? they have good browsers, but the
- whole fucking OS sucks.
-
- >(ALYNX is a great text-based WWW browser, however, and it's the onw I use
- >on my A3000 every day.)
-
- >:>: 2. Graphics cards are too expensive and they are not as fast as their PC
- >:>: counterparts.
- >: That will change now.
-
- >NOW they are still quite expensive. NOW is what's important to someone who
- >needs a computer NOW. Not two or three years from now.
-
- Won't be 2 or 3 years, next Amiga will allow cheaper PC grafix cards.
-
-
- >:>: 3. Amigas are expensive
- >: And so is all the hardware you need to run shit on a PC!
-
- >The point he was trying to make (and it's a valid one) was that you can get
- >a pretty loaded PC for the same amount of green you'd need to spend on a
- >pretty bare A4000T. It's just a fact of life now.
-
- And you have to keep loading the PC to get what the Amgia comes with.
-
-
- >:>: 4. They are not that easy to upgrade. Try adding a graphics card to an
- >:>: A1200
-
- >: What do you expect? if you plan on putting cards in a computer, get
- >: one
- >:with slots! DUH! Besides, ever try to put a card in a PC? And have it
- >:work?
-
- Not that hard, maybe, but stupid. Computers are supposed to be
- automatic, they are made of millions of switches - so why do you have to flip
- some to get the damn hardware to work?
-
-
- >Oh come on. Cards in PC's aren't *that* difficult to set up. The point
- >was that the only Amiga that could possibly compete with PC's in the
- >price/performance area isn't currently upgradable. Which is, of course, a
- >bad thing.
-
- >:>: 7. Most games only run in 15 Khz mode because DBLNtsc is slow
-
- >: Most games run in 15khz mode cuz the programmers suck.
-
- >I personally don't care what mode they run in because I have the Amiga that
- >was properly designed (A3000). But whether the programmers suck or not,
- >they're the ones putting out this floppy-only 15 KHz crap out on the
- >market. For most of the rest of the world, floppy-only games went out ages
- >ago.
-
- Agreed.
-
-
- >I've got a perfectly good hard drive in my A3000. I stopped buying
- >commercial games because they wouldn't support it.
-
- >:>: 8. Amiga games suck compared to the onse in the PC world
-
- >: If having games that don't take all the system resources suck, then
- >: I
- >:guess they do.
-
- >You won't get Descent on an Amiga without a serious hit in system
- >performance. Assuming Descent was actually made for Amigas, of course.
- >But there are only two or three commercial games I own that don't shut down
- >the OS completely anyway, so I'm not sure what point you're making. Even a
- >lot of the PD/SW stuff I've seen blocks you from using workbench as well.
-
- Point I was getting at was MEM space.
-
- >:
- >: If price is your only descent argument
-
- >Well, Descent is a good argument, I think. :)
-
- >---Rick
- >...don't buy one platform, buy em all! hahahahaha!
-
- >--
- > ___ _ _ _ | >>>>> charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu <<<<<
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- >| \||_ |\ | | | | |_\_/| \ |"So this is it, we're going to die!" --A.D.
- > ---> My WWW home is now at http://www.clemson.edu/~charlet/ <---
-
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