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- From: mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com (Matt Harrell)
- 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?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 13:30:25 GMT
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- Lee Huggett (Lee@burst.demon.co.uk) wrote:
-
- : Amigas were orignally designed to be the ultimate games machine, back in 1982
- : but thne the botom dropped out of the video games market so the team converted
- : the machine into a computer..
-
- Nope. You're wrong there. It was designed to be a low cost video
- workstation. It was the original "multimediate PC", even though the
- term was not yet in use. It was NOT designed to simply be a games
- machine. That simply happened to follow naturally as a result of the
- Amiga's video and audio skills. Now I'm certain that games *did*
- cross the minds of the developers.
-
- : Thing that has always annoyed me is that Commodore was there before IBM with the
- : business computer which was accepted by everyone, the Commodore PET..
-
- : They managed to shaft that up, they made BILLIONS of dollars from the C64, they
- : pissed all that away, they got the Amiga managed to kill themselves off with
- : it..
- : Is it any surprise with that track record they died??
-
- Must agree here!
-
- : Maybe Atari should have got the Amiga all that time ago..
-
- Yes, Atari had (has?) such a wonderful track record.
-
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