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- From: ajackson@alladin.demon.co.uk (Action Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why I switched from the Amiga
- Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 09:49:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <820489831.13686@alladin.demon.co.uk>
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- innuendo@yar.cs.wisc.edu (Jonathan Gapen) wrote:
-
-
- >In article <4bngub$2k4@madrid.visi.net> duncan@infi.net (duncan smith) writes:
- >>
- >> 1. Become Microsoft and Win95 compatible...Keep the Amiga dos but also Win95
- >> compatible. Hey Millions of potential customers and you give software
- >> developers a chance to "jimmy" with Amiga Dos again. Can't beat them ...join
- >> them. $$$$$ is what allows a company to advertise and invest in R&D
-
- > That is NOT the way to go.
- > Why? Look at it from the point of view of the software developer. You can
- >either develop a product which runs under Windows95, which will run on a
- >legion of Clones and a relatively small base of Amigas, or a product which
- >runs on a relatively small base of Amigas.
- > The choice is clear: Write software which all the machines can run.
-
- I as a programmer cant be bothered. Nor can my Company. Why? many
- reasons:
-
- 1) No Memory protection! Sounds Trivial? But Programmer productivity
- is Low is the machine keeps crashing!!!
-
- 2) Lack of Decent Development Tools: Take a look at PCs. They have
- Visual C++, Visual basic 4.0, Delphi. They all make development
- EASY!!!
-
- 3) Lack of User BASE. No, not the millions of Amiga Users but
- potential market. Our Company did a Market research in UK and found
- less than 30% of Amiga Users surveyed had Harddisks. Less than 40% had
- memory expansion. Less than 30% MultiSync Monitors. Less than 30% had
- more than 68020. Less than 20 % had CD rom drives. That is UK figures
- done about a year ago. Milage may vary. Who are we going sell seroious
- software to? A500 users? There may less Mac users but they are well
- speced machines.
-
- 4) HW spec. 8 bit WB was wonderful when EGA was the standard. 8 bit
- WB is also VERY slow even on A4000/40. I know, I have one. Most PC now
- days run 800x600 in 8 bit or more. They usually have 1024x768 in
- 16million colours. How many AMiga users have Hi-res graphics cards.
-
- Face it. Its evolution. If you dont evolvove, you DIE. Computers have
- come and gone. They all had supporters. Take C64, ZX Spectrum, Atari
- ST. All were ahead in their times. None evolved...
-
- We will wait and See how AT do with the new Amigas. Power PC should
- bring the speed up to date. They also need to bring the graphics up to
- date. Then they need to SELL them. We will see REAL loyalty of the
- Amiga users IF & WHEN they buy these NEW machines. Because no matter
- how loyal they are to their A500, A600, A1200, A2000, A3000. If they
- dont buy the newer, more powerful machines; there will be no market
- for SW DELELOPERS to WRITE FOR THE AMIGA.
-
-