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- From: wnear@epix.net (Bill Near)
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- Subject: Re: Newcomer
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- Date: 9 Mar 1996 23:51:14 GMT
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- On 7 Mar 1996 17:12:59 GMT, Greg Jung articulated:
- <> In article <4hl3k0$p7q@bignews.shef.ac.uk>, ELA95CSH@shef.ac.uk (Chris) writes:
- <> |>In article <4hhs8m$la7@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, jung@osse.nrl.navy.mil says...
- <> |>> Claims that AGA makes all preceding amigas obsolete are completely
- <> |>> untrue, only relevant in the european game-player clique.
- <> |>
- <> |>Perhaps I slightly over-stated my point! Still, an A500 + `020 with 2Mb ram
- <> |>is not as good as a base A1200 - would YOU still use DPaint on an A500 rather
- <> |>than an A1200? Didn`t think so! :P
- <>
- <> Not as good, sure. But that doesn't out-date the A500.
- <> All you have to do is update the accelerator+memory system, ie like with the
- <> GVP A530, (with on-board 32-bit mem & scsi, I think, at 50Hz) and the A500 can
- <> out-run my A3000/25, maybe in all respects. Expensive and kludgey but still
- <> the same effective computer. And the two systems should be able to
- <> run the same programs (and crash in similar fashions, also).
-
- The Amiga doesn't crash that much if you aren't running some
- renegade program.
-
- <> Slower/faster, better or worse, its still amiga. As long as there's
- <> sprites, blobs, and GURUs.
- ^^^^^
- Wasn't this the star of a '50s horror flick? :-)
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