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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 19:34:09 GMT
- Organization: Internet Online Services
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- >> 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
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