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- From: vortex@widomaker.com (Bradley Leffler)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why Amiga and why it is.
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 23:51:32 GMT
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- Paul Dossett (astroboy@netspace.net.au) wrote:
- : Emmanuel Henn (ROI@hotline.pfalz.de) said:
-
- : PK>> >8. Amiga games suck compared to the onse in the PC world
- : >Wake me, if You have something new to say !
- : Oh, great refutement. Have you played great PC/Mac games like Full Throttle,
- : Duke Nukem 3D, Havoc, Descent, etc? Most Amiga games are shitty football
- : management games.
-
- Let's see here.. you sound just like ever other 10 year old who's just
- dying for a game system. The real problem with PC games is that they ARE
- ALL THE SAME! OH you say.. but this one has different weapons and it
- takes place in blah blah blah. PC games are SHIT. You want games then buy a
- Playstation.
-
- : PK>> >4. Cool graphics programs ( which are now appearing on PC's)
- : >Mention one (not Lightwave, please !) Dpaint ? PPaint ? Brilliance ?
-
- : All mere hobbyist systems.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Opinions are like....
-
- : >Photogenics ? TV Paint ? Xipaint ?
- : >Do You know st about graphics programs ?
- : Have you used Corel Draw or Photoshop? Evidently not.
-
- Tell me what makes these any different.. aside from the fact that they
- are extremely un-intuitive and bloated.
-
- : PK>> >4. Dimond 3D Edge PCI video/sound card with 2 megs DRAM: $300
- : >Great ! Another 300 bucks to be able to play games !
- : >For that price, btw, You get a PS!With real P&P !
- : >(Del)
- : Or 300 bucks to do serious 3D work, or DTP or anything. Are you anything but
- : a A1200-owning gamesplayer?
-
- Let's see.. all the sheep out there owning a PC that do 'serious' 3D
- work, or DTP raise your hands.. Just as I suspected. How about real facts
- instead. Lightwave runs circles around 3D Studio and costs HOW MUCH LESS??
-
- : PK>> >7. Pentium 120: $300
- : >Wake me...
- : Sure thing! Hey, Amiga owners are buying Pentiums because A1200s are crap and
- : cost far too much! Very few people still write software for the machine.
- : Amiga Technology seem to be slumming it and doing as little as possible to
- : improve the machine, the OS or the publics perception of it.
-
- Problem with that '120 Mhz' Pentium is that it's overclocked by 10% and
- Intel even admitted it. So let's make that 108 Mhz instead.
-
- : >Yep, become a small fish in the big swarm and play with Your DOOM-station.
- : Explain what makes the Amiga a good choice for somebody who is undecided
- : between the Amiga and PC - price? No. Software? No. OS? W95 is good
- : enough for most people.
-
- Hmmm how about some other factors for the 'common user' owning a PC..
- OS? NO! Win95 is more of a hassle for the masses since 95% of them
- don't know the first thing about what an OS really is. 'Well those little
- papers that fly from folder to folder when you copy stuff are sooooo
- kewl!' Get real. Win95 is a kludge.
- Overall useability? NO NO NO! If you have to spend more time
- configuring your computer than using it then I think something's wrong.
-
- : PCs do far more than play Doom. If you still think they suck, you probably
- : haven't used a new, well-configured PCI system for more than 5 minutes.
-
- Well-configured.. love it! That's the machine that some guy bought a
- year ago and he's getting around to making it useable about now.
-
- : Paul Dossett | Yamaha, Epiphone, Pearl, Paiste | Amiga 2000/040/21/365/3.1 __
- : -------------| RASTER Bubble Bobble betatester | Amiga CD32/020/2/CD/3.1__///
- : boo! : astroboy@netspace.net.au.. | '76 Toyota Corolla 1.2 \XX/
-
- Why don't you just go ahead and replace those items in your sig, of
- which you seem to care so little about.
-
- "Listen... you smell something?!?!" - Dan Akroyd aka Ray Stantz
-
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