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- From: mikey@scinter.aftac.gov (Michael M Brockman)
- 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: 20 Mar 1996 04:34:16 GMT
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- >Dennis Lee Bieber (wulfraed@kd6mog.netcom.com) wrote:
-
- >: That seems to disagree with the history that was always reported
- >: when
- >: the Amiga first came out -- that the hardware (custom chips) WERE being
- >: designed for a super game machine, and only later did the thought of making
- >: it a full-fledged computer come up. And shortly after that, CBM bought up
- >: the Amiga designers to bring it to market.
-
- So lets make a comparison.
-
- GAMES MACHINE = High Speed Animation, Low CPU Loading (thanks to chipset),
- Pre-emptive Multitasking, and an Efficient Operating System
- to tie it all together.
-
- Full Fledge Computer = High Speed Animation, Low CPU Loading, Pre-emptive
- Multitasking, and an Efficient Operating System to tie it
- all together.
-
- Funny how that works. The things you need for a good games machine are the same
- things you needin a "real" computer. Games are harder to program than business
- software. And the Amiga is still the best games machine around.
-
-
- By The Way ..... For the record, Jay Miner (as well as others) designed the
- Amiga to become "the ultimate in home flight simulation" and it was always
- going to be a computer.....(Want another interesting discussion.....I can
- tell you why the Amiga has more in common to the Atari 8 bit, than it does the
- CBM 64....)
-
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