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- From: fheitka@ibm.net (Fred Heitkamp)
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- Subject: Re: Is it Adios Amiga again? (AT sold out!)
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- Date: 18 Apr 1996 11:42:40 GMT
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- STEPHEN ANTHONY (santhony@engr.mun.ca) wrote:
- : I agree, I think this may finally kill the Amiga for good. How many
- : people do you know of that were waiting for the new Amigas to be produced
- : so they could buy one of them? The only reason the market is staying
-
- I have two Amigas, an A2000 and A4000 and I do like them. They multitask
- well and are fun to program. They have well integrated multimedia
- capabilities. Some things I don't like: Peripherials and expansion
- cards are awful expensive and limited choice. The A4000 is slower in high
- resolution, high color graphics. It's memory access is slow and you can
- only get 16mb on the motherboard. The m68k line is dead in desktop
- computers for all practical purposes. I am very careful about spending
- any more money on my Amigas. I usually buy things that can go on a PC
- if worst comes to worst although I recently bought a Ariadne card.
-
- One of the best things I like about the Amiga is its custom chip
- architecture. From reading the Amiga groups opinions from Dave Haynie
- and the like, it is apparent that it is far too expensive to continue
- the custom chip development. To me, that makes the Amiga just another
- clone. Saddly, I read articals in trade journals about future
- plans for the PC architecture that sound like ideas found in the Amiga.
- The buzz now is having graphics chips full access to main memory similar
- to Amigas chip mem concept.
-
- I guess I'd like to see the Amiga continue if the custom chips and OS
- continue to evolve. Otherwise, I'm not to sure I care.
-
-
- : together at all was because of the enthusiasum of the expected NEW AMIGA'S.
- : It certainly wasn't because of the product now available, and definitely
- : not because of current prices. Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those
- : Amiga bashers. I've been using Amiga computers since 1987, but since the
- : early 90's, things have been going downhill. That is not bashing the
- : platform, that is a fact.
-
- It's only testament to the Amigas good design that it's lastest this long.
- A less capable platform would have been very dead by now; three or four
- years of no substantial development.
-
- :
- : The real fact of the matter is not where the new Amiga's will come from,
- : or even what their prices or specs will be. The real concern of many
- : users is support. First it was Commodore, then Escom, and now Viscorp.
- : I mean, where will it stop? Who is going to buy a computer from a
- : company that changes hands every few years?
-
- I don't care who owns it, I though Escom was doing a good job in the face
- of the odds. I could see Viscorp improving the chips for higher
- performing set top box and ITV applications and Escom putting those chips
- to good use in a new generation Amiga.
-
- : I think that the main problem that faces the Amiga of 1996 is the loss of
- : faith by its followers, not to mention those that have never heard of the
- : Amiga. Probably some may think that I am just one person who has lost
- : faith, but I know I have been in this market long enough to see many
- : others who feel the same way.
-
- Saddly, I agree.
-
- Fred Heitkamp
-