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AMIGA
(The Demise)
Before I begin I must point out why
this bit is here... any bad news for
the Amiga has got to be good news for
Atari and any good news for Atari is
good news for STOS. If you have X
amount of Atari owners then you have Y
amount of STOS users, that is, a perc-
entage of Atari owners. Therefore, any
increase in Atari owners must reflect
an increase in STOS users (if they can
get hold of it that is). Least ways, it
must widen the audience for all you
programmers out there.
From what I can gather from various
sources it is my opinion that Amigas
are on their way out - well Amigas with
keyboards at any rate. The Full range
of Amigas are down in price, not in
competition with Atari, etc., but
because they are to concentrate on the
Amiga CD. Priced at £299.00 for a stand
alone CD Console sounds a real winner
as the Sega equivalant needs the Mega
Drive to run. But by far the biggest
selling point for the Amiga CD are the
games, quoted in this week's main news-
papers to be a meagre £29.99 each. If
as suggested Commadore stop all produc-
tion of such as the A1200 and concent-
rate solely on the CD console then
that's the end of the Amiga as we know
it.
There is actually an option to buy the
CD with a keyboard (price unknown), but
can you honestly see anyone buying one?
I can't!
The Amiga will still be around for a
long time yet. I mean, look at all the
Spectrum owners still out there and
when was the last time you saw one of
those in the shops?
If someone is actually going to walk
into a shop wanting a reasonably priced
home computer that's here to stay,
there will be only one realistic option
open to them - the ATARI.
At the end of the day the Amiga has
always been, and will always be, an
excellent games machine, so I can see
the reasoning behind Commadore's
decision to drop the computer look and
concentrate on the console side of
things.
Why did they put a keyboard on their
machines in the first place?
All the above opinions are those of
myself, Tony Greenwood, and not necess-
arily the opinions of others connected
with Stosser, or in fact, the opinions
of any Stos or Atari user... honest!
HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!