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- Path: sparky!uunet!tension!shogun
- From: shogun@tension.UUCP (Jay Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- References: <1992Dec18.043354.20308@usl.edu>
- Message-ID: <shogun.09o0@tension.UUCP>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 09:59:24 EST
- Organization: High Tension BBS
- Lines: 46
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- In article <1992Dec18.043354.20308@usl.edu>, das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel
- A) writes:
- >In article <BzFHqD.45B@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- papresco@cantor.math.uwaterl
- >oo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
- >>>"Multitasking VDM"? Oh, you're running them in a DOS emulator, then. They're
- >>>not written for OS/2. Ah, that explains it.
- >>>
- >>>Eventually you will start getting some games written for OS/2, then maybe
- >>>you'll be able to do all this nice stuff we've been doing on our Amigas
- since
- >>>late 1985.
- >>
- >>#1.Most Amiga games CANNOT multitask, with, say a download (which is
- >>what we were discussing.
- >>
- >>#2.At least a DOS program under OS/2 cannot grab hold of the whole
- >>machine, an Amiga program can.
- >>
- >>#3.If I decide to cancel my terminal communication and run the DOS
- >>game alone, it will probably end up being a better game then an Amiga
- >>user's wet dream!
- >
- >#4 You Amigans cannot run MSDOS at all, and threfore cannot run
- >such incredible games such as Ultima Underworld and Falcon 3.0. So there.
- >
- >>I can't wait to see the next one...seventh guest. 2 CDs of three
- >>dimensional raytracing in ONE game.
- >
- >I wish I had a CD ROM!
- >
- >
- >--
- >Dan Stephenson das9674@usl.edu
- >"Yes Dan, I have heard of Ultima Underworld. From my point of view it
- > appears to be a rather large stick which you seem to be using to beat
- > everbody in this group with." -Mark Steyn
- Actually there is a good choice of IBM emulators for the Amiga out
- there. We can actually multitask DOS and Amiga software together (with ther
- right emulators). Befor you say something as a fact check first.
- JAy Brown
-
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- IBM MAKES IT IN BULK...MACINTOSH MAKES IT POPULAR, BUT ONLY AMIGA MAKES IT
- POSSIBLE.
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