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- From: toddm@cencom.net (psychoholic)
- 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?
- Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 17:42:02 GMT
- Organization: Cen-Com Internet
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- kkretsch@tcd.ie (kevin patrick kretsch) wrote:
-
- >In <3134A895.193E@sound.net> Brian Baltzell <brian@sound.net> writes:
-
- >>amiga's suck. They still can't do SVGA, they can't run netscape, they
- >>can't run quake, they can't run nascar. But best of all they're way
- >>overpriced. It seems like europeans are the real dummies, they bought
- >>the dead body of commodore. Get with the program, get Wintel.
-
- >What's so great about SVGA?
- >Who needs netscape? (We have a better program) :)
- >Quake? Nascar? Ha!
-
- >In my books AmigaDOS beats MSDOS hands down, the Amiga still multitasks
- >better than _ANY_ other machine, is far nicer to use, emulate more
- >systems better than anything else (not that I ever need to) (and can't
- >be emulated itself), better graphics, better sound, and Final Writer
- >beats Word anyday of the week for WP/DTP. And that's at 50MHz!!
-
- >I might be dumb but the Gate's brainwashing machine won't get me! :)
-
- >Long live dumb Europeans!! (And the dumb Americans that use Amigas
- >'cause nothing else will do, including NASA.)
-
- >
- > Kev.
-
-
- >--
- >Kevin P. Kretsch GradInstP e-mail: kkretsch@alf2.tcd.ie
- >Research Scientist, Photonic Materials group,
- >Department of Physics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
- >Tel: +353 1 608 2039 Fax: +353 1 671 1759
-
-
- Whoa, can't we all just get along? I figure I should add my two cents.
- I was a commodore user from my old 5k vic20 to my former Amiga 1200.
- In theire times, each was at the top of the class but if you say the
- Amiga's dead then commodore killed it. I'm sure it's different in
- Europe, but it's about impossible in the US to find any Amiga stuff
- except by mail and most of that comes from overseas which means higher
- shipping and heaven help you if you need tech support. I stuck with my
- Amiga while all my friends with PC's bought cool new games and
- software, while I watched store after store discontinue their Amiga
- lines. I am a hardcore gamer and the current crop of Amiga games
- really suck with a few exceptions. They are still trying to come up
- with a decent DOOM clone, while that game is old news to PC's. In
- addition many Amiga games did not even allow you to install to
- hardrive which meant lots of irritating disk swapping and an eternity
- waiting for loading. Most games were still written to run on a box
- stock A500 as well. You can argue until the cows come home about which
- system is better. The truth is multitasking doesn't do me much good if
- I have no programs with which to do it. I will be more than happy to
- buy another Amiga if they ever get a foot in the US market but for
- right now my pentium suits me just fine. It pretty much came with
- everything I (and probably the average home user) need in a computer.
- I am not knocking the Amiga by any means. It is a helluva system and
- easier to use than IBM clones as well, but I don't have $$$ to chunk
- down for a bunch of graphics stuff which is the main advantage to
- Amigas( besides, I have no artistic talent). I guess what I want to
- say is that the main function of a computer is to run software. You
- can have the fastest system and best OS around but if you ain't got
- shit to run on it, then it might as well be a paperweight.
-
-
- P.S. I still think Earl Weaver's Baseball was one of the greastest
- computer games ever written. It still beats a lot of baseball games
- made 10 years later!
-
-