From: | Alan Buxey |
Date: | 22 Jun 2001 at 15:03:58 |
Subject: | Re: Whinge,whinge!!!! |
hi,
> 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 were final products. Granted, they weren't stable, but
> then they didn't have me on board as a full-time committed beta tester
> back then.
>
> :)
:-)
> more stable alternative. Where's the alternative that Amiga offers? Can
> I buy Tao's SDK, the KOAN audio kit, and some other stuff instead of
> Amiga's?
you probably can, whether you can AFFORD to is another matter ;-)
> Worse, I'd have to shop at Eyetech in order to claim some kind of
> support for it, in which case it would be $100.
ack! if this is the case then i strongly disagree with this. Support
should come from Amiga directly...eg downloadable files if drivers needed.
so long as the card i buy from 'mr supplier' is the same as Amiga specify
then it should work and i dont need to go via one supplier.
in fact, only having one supplier dealing with a worldwide-supplied card
is forcing monopoly and unfair. probably illegal under European law too.
> As for your $60 price: Did you forget to buy speakers and cables,
> too, Alan? That's $10 at least added to the price, $50 if you want
> a seperate subwoofer, $75 if you want a cheap 5.1 solution.
?? of course I forgot speakers, I've already got a HiFi, I use that for my
computer and console sound. (why use crappy speakers/amp etc for Dolby AC3
5.1 ????)
> Now we need an A1200 or A4000, an Eyetech AmigaOne, PPC,
> RAM, three seperate PCI cards and an AGP card (sound, network
> and scsi, and your matrox, the middle being the cheapest but
> still really required for full functionality) of specific brands,
> peripherals to match, *and* an OS that is supposedly worth
> $100 *and* an SDK that we'd need to develop for the *next*
> stage of the Amiga Roadmap (and, y'know? We've almost just
> missed the party pack deal, so add $100 to the entire price)
if you read between the lines you can see that there is a plan for an
'allinone' type system....settop box style? with built in SCSI/SOUND/GFX
chipset..but thats looking far into the roadmap...a roadmap which also
counts the AmigaONE as just a stopgap measure before the real machine
arrives if you read closely. Of course I'm going to quibble between $100
being quoted and $40 in real life...thats a $60 saving...which almost pays
for the G550 card (or whatever)
alan
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