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- From: M Papachristos <se3mp@dmu.ac.uk>
- 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: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:04:21 +0000
- Organization: De Montfort University
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- Jonathan Belson wrote:
- >
- > : Subtle difference - the Amiga was _written off_ as a games machine, in the same
- > : way I just wrote off the playstation <g>, the PC, king in the business and
- > : related fields, is now _also_ awesome for gaming, the Amiga has never been in
- > : this position and is now arguably poor in both fields. Presumably this is the
- > : reason behind at least _some_ of such comments, and looks like valid enough
- > : logic to me. The rest is prob just bigoted drivel like you say.
- >
- > I suppose it comes down to bad marketing - it was so far ahead when it was
- > released but the advantage was lost. The PC isn't sold on merit, people
- > buy what they are told to buy...Software is developed for the machine with
- > the biggest market. I'm lucky enough to be able to use an Amiga at work
- > but I'm in the very small minority.
- >
- > C-YA
- > Jon
-
- EXACTLY!!! Most people have NO IDEA what a PeeCee really is. They buy it because
- of the brainwash they are exposed to; PeeCee ads are everywhere and so are PeeCees.
- And, let's put something straight: AMIGAS WERE NOT MADE TO BECOME THE ULTIMATE
- GAMES MACHINES!!! But that *@%#! company Commodore marketed them as "home"
- machines and consequently they became toys in the eyes of the public.
-
- PeeCees became business machines because that's the only thing they could do:
- boooooring business applications. Even today, many companies use text-based
- data entry systems; and I've actually been to one for a few days! The Amiga
- however was meant to be "the computer for the creative mind", and in fact it
- still is. But the crowd can NOT see it because it's behind the scenes.
-
- I still am proud of being an Amiga owner and would only change it for a better
- Amiga. And someone tell me: how many PeeCee users out there can have a file
- finder, an image converter, an image viewer, a file compressor AND playing
- a game on the Spectrum emulator, ALL AT THE SAME TIME? Or, the PeeCee user's
- nightmare: doing something else while an application is printing! And I can
- do all that on my "toy" A1200 (68020!!!) with 6MB of RAM! Yes, it slows down the
- machine a lot (and I may run out of memory) but I can STILL play the game on the
- emulator at a proper speed! And all those at 3 mips!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Which is at least 30-40 times slower that a Pentium, innit?
-
- Well, I hope I made a lot (well, there ARE a lot of PeeCee users out there after
- all!) of jaws drop and eyes pop out! And possibly some Amiga users who are
- considering to change platform...
-
- (Mr.) Miltiades PAPACHRISTOS (student) - alias Moutos!
- De Montfort University
- LEICESTER, UK
-
- se3mp@dmu.ac.uk
-
- "And may the AmigaGuide you!"
-