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- From: remilld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jason Remillard)
- Subject: Re: Sega stats. VS. Amiga
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- References: <Bxu744.KnM@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Nov17.034559.21580@ra.msstate.edu> <hgm.722004736@news.ncsu.edu> <1992Nov17.215302.29266@news.uit.no>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:28:44 GMT
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- In <1992Nov17.215302.29266@news.uit.no> terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen) writes:
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- >In article <hgm.722004736@news.ncsu.edu>, hgm@ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks) writes:
- >>skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
- >>
- >>>In article <Bxu744.KnM@ccu.umanitoba.ca> remilld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jason Remillard) writes:
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- >>>>BTW, he figures that the Amiga is strictly a games machine.....So naturally
- >>>>I want to show him that the Sega is nothing but a piece of shit....
- >>
- >>Actually, it isn't. The fact that the Sega is a dedicated game system means
- >>that it has no multitasking OS (in different versions) to worry about.
- >>Programmers are free to bash the hardware as they wish.
- >>
- >>I have a lot of games that ceased to work when I got my 3000. No such
- >>problem with my Genesis.
-
- >Ok, lets put in another aspect too.
- >Hardware compatibility.
-
- >Change the hardware to much on a new Genesis, and you could have more
- >compatibility problems than on the Amiga just becasue of the lack of OS.
-
- >Anyway, most game programmers on the Amiga, if not all (until the days of 3.0 and
- >AGA at least) don't worry much about the OS.
-
- Is it also true that the CD-ROM device also houses a 68000 itself...I think it's
- BS, but the 68000 is capable of some really neat tricks...
-
- Also, the point about games running much faster and nicer on a Sega is a very
- moot point since it is all on the ROM cartridge (no OS, etc.)..
-
- How much RAM, if any does it have?
-
- I suspect that the AGA chipset will make sawdust of the Sega graphics, but the
- 'Bang-For-the-Buck' arguement that would always be used to defend the Amiga can now probably be turned against it with the 4000 & 600 out....
-
- >Terje Marthinussen
- >terjem@stud.cs.uit.no
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- MicroLab Assistant REMILLD@ccu.umanitoba.ca
- University of Manitoba REMILLD@ccm.umanitoba.ca
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