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- From: de9218@ida.utb.hb.se (Dobroslaw Krawczynski)
- 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: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 20:10:42 GMT
- Organization: Chalmers University of Technology
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- kathomas@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas) wrote:
-
- >kcci1@central.susx.ac.uk (Alan L.M. Buxey) writes:
-
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- >Not yet, not until '97 at the earliest. Seeing how there still isn't
- >even an Alpha version of the OS, early '97 is a bit optimistic. Within 9
- >months of the P-Macs introduction there were already alpha versions of
- >the OS. Within 3 months there were already development tools. By the time
- >the p_Macs were introduced there were already 30 native apps and other
- >apps that weren't native had native plug-ins.
-
- Could You enlighten me a bit here, you mean that you got a computer
- for 9 months without a OS or do you mean that the OS came 9 months
- after the announcement that the P-Macs will come. What is a plug-in?
- 30 apps, i read somewhere that mac now has 1400 native PPC apps, when
- you consider that they had 30 when they began i seriously doubt the
- first number.
-
-
- >>: Right/ What Web Browser for the Amiga supports frames, JavaScript, Java,
- >>: ShockWave, RealAudio, a VRML broswer, cookies, and the myriad of other
- >>: Netscape plug-ins.
- >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Actually, which web browser on other platform can use IBrowse prefs.
- This really is a silly argument.
-
- >JavaScript and now Java are built directly into the browser as well as
- >cookies.
-
- >>not everyone is buying those systems for a start.....the user base is
- >>still 486's in the main. And quake isnt even out, so stop trying to use
- >>it as an argument. Fact is, game for game, the Amiga actually NEEDS less
- >>resources to do the same job.
-
- >You don't have anything to compare high-end Mac and PC's to. There aren't
- >any Amiga games with the resolution and fps of Descent on a P-Mac. There
- >aren't any games that have 640x480 non-interlaced 8-bit and 16-bit color
- >graphics with 16-bit stereo active panning sound on the Amiga.
-
- Well, i would like a Playstation too, you obviously have one!
-
- >>: You're bragging about this? For $1300 you can get a PowerMac 6116 with
- >>: 8Megs of RAM, a 500Mb Hard Drive, a good quality 14" monitor, a modem, a CD-ROM
- >>: drive, and loads of software
-
- So what, i don't want a mac.
-
- >>"quality" and " 14" " are not designed to go into the same sentence.
-
- >Actually you can get a 15" monitor for about $20 more third party, if you
- >go through a catalog reseller.
-
- I don't get, what's so f***g great about 1 extra inch?!
-
- >>and so what about LOADS of software? most of it will be pack-in crap
- >>that you'll never run more than once. and the modem will be an outdated
- >>14.4 that probably succeeds more 12000 connections than 14400.
-
- >I run ClarisWorks all the time. It's fast, has all the features that most
- >people ever need and takes up only 3 Megs of hard drive space (application,
- >spell checker, thesaurus, converters, and communication tools) and runs
- >well in less than 2 Megs of free ram.
-
- I've seen this amazing software package and yes it's sufficient but i
- got a better wp when i bought a 600, the other parts not mentioned.
- Communications tools are plenty on the amy and tthey are a LOT better.
-
- >>: get a dx/2-66 with all of the hardware you named for less than $1300 and
- >>: you would have a much faster system. Just look in Computer Shopper
- >>: sometimes.
-
- >>faster CPU, not faster system.
-
- >Hmm, the graphics are faster, the calculations are faster, and the
- >hardware is faster. Run some graphic apps on the Amiga and see which one
- >is faster.
-
- Like running an anim with a mod playing in the background, yes it
- really flies. The calculations are faster and if you use 3d software
- it pays of, same with games, but while 3d progs only use the cpu the
- games can use custom chips on the amy, exactly what HW are we talking
- about, hd speed, come on make my day. When you run them on a
- GFX-board thhey are fast but not aga, yet we have software that the PC
- lacks like TRUE multimedia.
-
- >>: A dx/2-66 doesn't creep along at all. But if a dx/2-66 creeps, an Amiga
- >>: must run backwards.
-
- >>it runs back whilst going forwards.....multitasking you know ;)
-
- >That describes the Amiga perfectly - staying in one place for the past
- >four years.
-
- That is the major setback for us, but it's easy to remedy. Now if
- PC-had to get a completely new OS that would be a major problem.
-
- >>--
- >>- (c) Alan Postings Ltd - A division of Alans(tm) Corporate body(tm) :-)
- >>Date: Fri Mar 15 13:36:25 GMT 1996 Issue:01/00/00 NOT to be carried on M.S.N.!
- >> ** Confidential! ** {begin 644 address.txt} Work it out...
- >>{D:'1T<#HO+W=W=RYS=7-S97@N86,N=6LO57-E<G,O:V-C:3$*}{ end}Replies Appreciated :)
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- Dobbe
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