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- From: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 21:28:09 GMT
- Organization: Video On Line
- Distribution: world
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- >Fabio Bizzetti (bizzetti@mbox.vol.it) wrote:
-
- >: For being "idealist", I wasted more than 1 year of fulltime
- >: work on the Amiga, to make my first commercial game and live
- >: with it, and I got only 1549 UKP,
- >:
- >: Well,from the deepest of my heart: FUCK OFF AT,
- >: you made it all become useless.
-
- >Well, I don't think you can blame AT for the success or otherwise
- >of VK.
-
- I think it was clear that if I was blaming AT, is for the future of the Amiga
- that I waited for, not for the copies VK sold.
-
- >It may have sold more in the glory days, but it still would
- >have been criticised in the mag reviews, and it still would have been
- >so close to being good. You got little money cos not many people bought
- >it, this is because there were fewer Amiga owners buying games and
- >because VK wasn't good enough (but was very close, just needed some
- >tweaks).
-
- Why are you talking about VK? What's the connection with what I was talking
- about? Sorry, I thought my thoughts were well explained.
-
- >I feel for the developers at times like this, but it's got nothing to
- >do with AT, sure they could have marketed the A1200 more aggressively,
- >but sooner or later it was gonna come, the Amiga can't compete with
- >consoles in the games market, not from an A1200 level anyway.
-
- >It takes time to develop new machines, you can tell 'em they've f***ed
- >it up when the new machines come out and no-one buys them, until then
- >there's nothing to say, except it was CBM's fault. If you want to
- >blame anyone, blame CBM management for delaying the release of the A1200
- >*2 YEARS* so they could sell off all the crappy A600's. You can hardly
- >criticise AT when you think of the A600 debacle.
-
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- This way you are admitting that the Amiga is dead, if because of the past we
- can't have the future we should have. Making it become a PC clone will not
- save the Amiga, will only save Escom's investiment.
-
- >Geoff./
-
- >--
- >% Odd H. Sandvik %% email: oddhs@sn.no
- >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- >% Acceleration into temporal space continuum now begins...
- >% Alpha 7, acknowledge... Alpha 7, acknowledge...
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- | Stop that fucking imperialist embargo against Cuba. |
- | Hasta Siempre Comandante Che Guevara. |
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- | Fabio "Maverick" Bizzetti - bizzetti@mbox.vol.it - Maverick* at IRC |
- | The maker of "CyberMan" and "Virtual Karting" |
- | working on "Virtual Rally" and "StarFighter", the 3D game that will |
- | bring the Amiga to the top |
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