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- From: Lee@burst.demon.co.uk (Lee Huggett)
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:52:27 GMT
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- > Lee Huggett (Lee@burst.demon.co.uk) wrote:
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- > 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.
-
- I'm sure I've seen a quote form Jay Miner (God rest his soul) that he wanted to
- design the ultimate games machine cos Atari wouldn't let him after the Atari 800
-
-
- >: Maybe Atari should have got the Amiga all that time ago..
-
- > Yes, Atari had (has?) such a wonderful track record.
-
- Hmm.. seem to made a complete arse of it now tho...
-
- Lee
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