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- From: bamf13@ix.netcom.com(Mark & Michelle Wood)
- 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: 17 Mar 1996 16:13:32 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
- Message-ID: <4ihdnc$d0u@reader2.ix.netcom.com>
- References: <1996Mar11.221045@cantva> <1233.6645T1144T27@Th0r.foo.bar> <1996Mar15.131734@cantva> <4ie538$gjd@osfb.aber.ac.uk> <1996Mar17.125222@cantva>
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- In <1996Mar17.125222@cantva> misc335@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes:
- >
- >> It's good to be ABLE to expand, but you shouldn't HAVE to.
- >
- >I would argue that you don't _have_ to, even on the PC platform (I
- don't know
- >of any games that _require_ SVGA, and games are still made that will
- run on the
- >286, but I'm no expert - this entire line of thought runs contrary to
- my nature
- >as power-user-wannabe :-)
- >(This is also why I find the Amiga games situation abhorrant - the
- reason doom
- >clones arn't even close to doom on the Amiga is precisely because 5
- year old
- >machines are still popular - it's a viscious cycle - the longer you
- leave it,
- >the harder it is to move forward :(
- >
-
- If you drop all of the older Amigas then the Amiga user base gets
- smaller. I agree expansion is good (I've done what I can so far) but
- some types of expansion are possible yet (no way to upgrade to AGA).
- Sorry if I've missed the point completely...
-