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- From: solar@dozy.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (Solar)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:54:58 GMT
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- In article <4ia4s3$35h@tkhut.sojourn.com>, mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com (Matt Harrell) writes:
- > Shane R. Monroe (darkuni@nwinternet.com) wrote:
- >
- > : CONS: Incredibly crappy marketing, users who WON'T UPGRADE THEIR DAMN
- > : SYSTEMS so we are all stuck playing vanilla A500 games from floppy,
- > : companies that won't FORCE the users to upgrade (there are notable
- >
- > I have a serious problem with this. Demanding that everyone
- > spend huge amounts of money on something because you want software
- > that requires faster and better-equiped machines is absurd. The
- > software for Windows requires such monstrously fast machines often due
- > to poor programming more than anything else (and perhaps a lack of
- > standard chip sets). If you recall, in the earlier days of the Amiga,
- > one of its big appeals was that it cost quite a bit less than the
- > Macintosh and IBM clone competition (and was also better in just about
- > every conceivable measure). That's what got many of us into Amigas in
- > the first place. However, this just isn't the case anymore. I'm not
- > going to spend many hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year on my
- > computer just so others can have more, fancier, expensive software. I
- > use almost entirely freeware anyway because I can't afford the
- > outrageous amounts of money that much commercial stuff costs. Besides,
- > some of us have other hobbies that require funds, like audiophile
- > quality stereo systems :-)
- >
-
- Sorry, I would second Matt on this. Too much o today's software still honors
- the real dinosaur A500. While EsCom offers 200,- DM for A500 / A600 when you
- buy a new A1200, the software market should make its own PowerUP-program real
- fast.
- I do not see any sense in still supporting the A500. Even the A2000 has lost
- somewhat of its appeal. I do not see any sense in offering software either
- for basic A500 or basic A1200. Personally, I would prefer a cut between software
- for basic A1200 and accelerated A1200. Jesus, if every software company had stuck
- to "basic A500", there would be no such thing like Wordworth NOR Final Writer.
- I am very sad that the venerable A500 has no future, but that is a fact. If we
- remain supporting it, we will give away any chance that the Amiga might one
- day reclaim its position on top of computing power. Future basic system will be
- the A1200, and we should accept the fact that OCS/ECS machines are dead for good.
- They might remain in service for a few more years, but spending money for research
- and development of soft-/hardware for these systems is insane.
- We are switching to the second generation of CPU. We are switching (hopeully) to
- the third generation of custom chips, or whatever will make the PowerAmigas Amiga.
- We should finally take the step to the second generation of software.
- Yes, it was a very attractive thing that the Amiga market did not force its users
- to upgrade every year. But right now, we all are forced to move. Right now, it is
- upgrade (fast) or die (again). With the current performance of either the A1200
- or the A4000T, the Amiga will die again soon. We have clung to old (but nonetheless
- fine) hard-/software for a full decade. Now we must be bold enough to let go, and
- grab the future.
-
- (God, I should go into politics.)
- --
- Martin Baute
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