home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Path: news.starnet.net!waikato!kcbbs!planet!not-for-mail
- From: finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Message-ID: <2253.6673T882T324@ak.planet.gen.nz>
- Nntp-Posting-Host: ppp0-07.ak.planet.gen.nz
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP) *UNREGISTERED*
- References: <316874cd.84247771@news.onramp.net>
- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 12:29:33 GMT
-
- >On 6 Apr 1996 17:10:17 GMT, nilo@login.dknet.dk (Nicolai Thilo) wrote:
-
- >>In article <315a0646.3201934@news.onramp.net>, David Corn
- >>(dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:
- >>
- >>>>You plug hardware in on an AMiga, copy the device driver to the devs
- >>>>directory, and you are done.
- >>
- >>>Really? You're telling me that's what you did to get the graphics
- >>>card working? I don't think so.
- >>
- >>Amazing, isn't it? Fact is that Autoconfig existed from start and it
- >>actually *works*! I can see why the concept may be a little hard for
- >>a Wintel user to grasp. PNP is yet another kludgy Windows add on
- >>which works...sometimes, kinda like everything else in Windows.
- >>Point is, you better have a huge knowledge of hardware and software
- >>oddities when you set up or expand a Wintel box.
-
- >Sigh. On an Amiga, you cannot simply "copy a device driver to devs"
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- why not? you only really have to put in a new monitor driver and device
- into devs, and you should be away. You might have to install a prefs
- program, but that is no hassle.
-
- >and have it all work. If you think you can, you REALLY need to
- >rethink things - there's a LOT more to it than that. Win95 is far
- >easier to set up with another graphics card.
-
- Even if what you are saying were true, would it really make sense to switch
- over to an OS written by people who want to know what is in you directory
- structure without asking you? That would be enought to put me off 'net
- stuff on the PC, even if the OS wasn't total crap.
-
- >>Most of what you know about Amigas you learned from your pathetic
- >>errors in c.s.a.advocacy, not from experience. You obviously still
- >>believe that 640x400 is the max NI resolution on a stock Amiga, and
- >>you still think that because *you* don't want to use a 72Hz 800x600
- >>interlaced display then no one else can be happy with it.
-
- >If you don't mind it being painfully slow 'even' on AGA Amigas, more
- >power to you.
-
- The screen redraw may be slow, but if you are using workbench, it is still
- faster than the redraw in WinCrap95. The card may be able to redraw faster,
- but what is the point if it takes 10 seconds to redraw a backdrop picture on
- a Pentium 100.
-
- Finn Higgins
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-