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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 19:34:13 GMT
- Organization: Internet Online Services
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-
- >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?
- No, that's not what I meant at all. The more, the merrier. I must not have
- explained it clearly.
-
- >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?
- No.
- What I meant is that if the Amiga hardware becomes identical to
- clone hardware who will bother to make Amiga games/demos anymore? Why not just
- make them for Intel clones, the gfx won't be any more boring because theye
- will be the same and the market will be much, much larger. The Amiga games
- market would have dried-up to its current state long ago had it not been for
- the custom chips. Many programmers knew that the IBM clone market was larger,
- but still produced for the Amiga market because of their fascination with the
- custom architecture. Once that goes, why in the world should they bother to
- make anything other than Intel clone games?
-
- >AmigaTechnologies 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 :-(
-
- Although I don't know that
- NT will do all that much. I hear that it makes Windows95 seem the memory
- efficiency. If the main clone market went PPC+Windows95 then that be a big
- thing.
-
-
- >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.
- But will the NT users even have bothered to purchase AmigaOS for his PPC
- clone? Why will he spend $60-150 dollars on a product that he doesn't evenknow
- exists and has like 1 or 2 native apps? And if so few people have it, what
- developrs will join on (well maybe, maybe even some big ones if they afraid of
- the current monopoly).
-
- >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.
- But all the IBM games are Intel CPU code and DOS or a few Intel code and
- Windows95. Evenif NT and PPC can sort of run that stuff, it will be slower
- than on an Intel clone, and the newest games push the CPU of even fastest
- Intel machines to the limits (with 150 different PC gfx clone boards, hardly
- anyone support what few special features they even have).
-
-