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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Path: cix.compulink.co.uk!usenet
- From: jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph")
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Message-ID: <DoF1EE.D2C@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Organization: Compulink Information eXchange
- References: <1192.6647T1141T1381@gramercy.ios.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 14:25:26 GMT
- X-News-Software: Ameol32
-
- > Also if you use the same CPU and same GFX cards as any old PPC clone do
- > you really think people would bother making AmigaDOS ports of games?
- > Might as well just make it for a more prominent OS. Who would even
- > buy the AT PPC harware then?
-
- This seems a very odd argument. You're saying the PowerAmiga shouldn't be
- made to run other OS's, otherwise no-one will develop software for it
- because they can just run their normal Windows NT (or whatever) versions
- on the PPC?
-
- Do you really think that limiting the machine so it can't run other OS's
- and other software will make the Amiga software market bloom? It will go
- the way of the Be Box if you do this. Interesting machine, excellent
- specifications, but no-one wants one because there's no software for it.
-
- Amiga Technologies MUST make the machine affordable and powerful. But if
- they want to sell it outside the current Amiga market, they must make it
- compatible too. Yes, that means Windows NT I'm afraid. You can't beat
- them. Join the dark side, it's the only way :-(
-
- Once the Amiga has both OS's, people will start to wonder why the apps on
- the 'Amiga' side of their computer seem to perform faster and better than
- the apps on the NT side of their system.
-
- I'm an Amiga fanatic, but I'd much rather have a machine that runs a
- great percentage of PC games (but is also an Amiga), and for no new Amiga
- games to be developed than for a machine that can't run PC games but may
- have a half-dozen or so games developed for it per year.
-
- Jolyon
-