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- From: davidh@lebunka.ion.com.au
- Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: There is *NO* Amiga....STOP IT NOW
- Date: 11 Mar 1996 22:12:52 GMT
- Organization: Peter Hall & Company
- Message-ID: <4i28h4$fev@lebunka.ion.com.au>
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- In <4hqd2g$5ot@hubcap.clemson.edu>, charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E Taylor IV) writes:
- >In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960308193856.1506A-100000@supreme> Kresimir Ante Rogic <krash@pcug.org.au> writes:
- >
- >:Comparing AGA with a GFX card... You think that's fair?
- >
- >It sure is. Compare the cost of an A4000 with the cost of a PC ... a
- >pentium even. In Australia it might be different but you can get quite a
- >chunk of PC here for the price of AT's 4000.
- >
- >:And why
- >:is it that some people just want to compare a basic Amiga with an IBM
- >:with all the works...
- >
- >Because they cost the same ... :)
- >
-
- Not only do they cost the same but the PC's come with more power and the ability
- to run some very neat software.
-
- >: An Amiga with everything (GFX cards, Sound cards
- >:etc) is many time better than anything..
- >
- >How do you figure? All those brilliant games don't support the graphics
- >and sound cards. (Name a commercial game that takes advantage of an Amiga *sound*
- >card, or one that has built-in support for an Amiga graphics card. Pretty
- >short list, eh?)
- >
- >.... and let's not forget the cost of those peripherals you mention.
- >
-
- No matter how you look at the Amiga issue, support for the machine is very low.
- With that type of support, not many customers are going to purchase it.
-
- The bottom line is that there really is no incentive to purchase the current
- machines. Maybe if AT can produce an Amiga that can run IBM compatible progs
- as well as Amiga progs (at the same or faster level of performance as IBM pcs)
- then people might purchase them. Although, they'd have to at least match the
- IBM prices. Too me, this seems an unlikely scenario.
-
- I guess the Amiga is like love, "Love is blind!". I supported the machine from the
- A1000 up until April '95 when I purchased my P90. I too hated IBM's but when the
- Amiga fell so far behind and there seemed to be no progess coming from Commodore
- I switched.
-
- The initial trip through the IBM world wasn't great but now I'm happy that I've
- switched. I do miss one thing though, the excellent multitasking abilities of the
- Amiga OS. Nothing I have seen in a personal OS has come close. The nearest
- OS on the PC for me is IBM's Warp OS2, and it still comes no where near the
- performance of the Amiga OS.
-
- Cheers,
-
- David...
- davidh@lebunka.ion.com.au
-
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