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- From: larshau@maud.ifi.uio.no (Lars Haugseth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.games,alt.sys.amiga.demos,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 14:52:58 +0100
- Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
- Message-ID: <y9fka09wa85.fsf@maud.ifi.uio.no>
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- In-reply-to: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it's message of 21 Mar 1996 15:27:58 GMT
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- > If a ECS/AGA 680x0 programmer has to learn a new standard (SVGA), and a new
- > CPU, why should he learn the AT's PowerPC that has no market rather than
- > a 80x86 PC?
-
- Because the PowerAmiga will have a nice OS and the PC's won't.
-
- > If PowerAmiga is as I heard it will be, programming it will be exactly as
- > programming a PC; and if we are all destined to make this sad end, it's better
- > to program the one of these 2 PC's that lets some incomes for the shitty work.
-
- If it's so shitty, why don't you find something else to do?
-
- > (remember here we are at comp.sys.amiga.games, not comp.sys.amiga.applications)
-
- Look at the 'Newsgroups:' field in the header, this is not only .games.
-
- > Escom wants the faithful Amiga owners to buy their IBM PC called PowerAmiga.
- > IMHO, the name "Amiga" in the box isn't enough to consider it an Amiga.
- > It has *nothing* from the Amiga, neither in hardware nor in phylosophy,
- > besides a buggy OS that anyway, good or not, has nothing to do with real
- > games/RealTimeSimulation applications.
-
- Those who think games are everyting, have baught a PC or a PlayStation.
- The rest of us are still using Amiga because of the OS. If you think the
- custom chips still are the strong part of the Amiga, you are a moron IMO.
-
- > Too much sad, I hope that the 68060 I wanted to buy will serve me for years,
-
- In a couple of years, the 68060 is considered *dog slow*, hell it's considered
- pretty slow *today*.
-
- > Untill now Escom sold Pentium PC's to PC users, now they'll manage to sell
- > their PC's also to Amiga users, stealing the name from this glorious machine.
- > Nobody managed to kill the Amiga, only Escom made it possible.
- > Come on.. am I wrong? Think of it.
-
- Let me think... Yes, you are wrong, though the word 'mad' is more
- fitting, IMO.
-
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- Lars Haugseth <larshau@ifi.uio.no>
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