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- From: Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Dan got the Amiga 1000!
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <Paula_Lieberman.07p4@amicol.UUCP>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 13:52:58 EDT
- Organization: Amiga Colony BBS
- Lines: 49
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- re article by Dan Stephenson <1992Dec26.033008.2884Aedl.edu> "I might pack
- it up and go back to Ultima Underworld and Falcon 3.0. You heard of those,
- right?" I could care less about them, personally -- they're GAMES. My
- idea o computer games is "Let's Play Nuclear War for Training" with the US
- Worldwide Military Command and Control System computers -- that's -my- idea
- of computer games. Why bother with chintz on single user low power
- systems.....
-
- To be a -bit- seroius -- really, I do NOT care. The last time I played a
- game on this machine was one or two years ago, with Lemmings demo handed
- out at a BCS (Boston Computer Society) Amiga Users Group meeting, and the
- time before then, some years prior when I was playing with Haitex' 3-D
- glasses that came with a 3-D. Those are just about the ONLY times I've
- EVER run games software on this machine. The 1200 HAS had a game, Wing
- Commander, played on it -- because someone at the store I was purchasing it
- at wanted to see how it ran on a 1200, and mine was the only one in sight,
- and I gave permission. -I- wasn't playing it!
-
- What I do with my Amigas is telecommunication (case in point in-progress!),
- spreadsheeting, work processing, DTP, some playing around with math stuff,
- some graphics, occasionally sound stuff -- most telecom and productivity
- right now, I'm trying to get a project finished that I used word processing
- and spreadsheeting for. Yes, I KNOW a lot of people play games on their
- Amigas -- but that doesn't include me. As I've said at other times, I've
- met people using Amiga for marketing and sales businesses, for cancer
- therapy, for scientific research, for checkout of the US Cape Canaveral
- launch facilities (probably the highest-priced equipment any Amigas are
- hooked up to anywhere in the world!), for graphics arts, for doing
- publishing design services bureau work, etc. etc. If all you want is a
- -games- machines for IBM PC compatible games, then a clone '486 is a LOT
- better machine than a 7 year old, long out of production and years' worth
- of revs and research behind the current Amiga OS and hardware in
- production, machine to use! The 1000 is an ANTIQUE, it's a "classic
- computer." I see people out driving proudly in their antique automobiles,
- with special"antique car" license plates -- but I DO NOT hear them COMPLAIN
- about their lack of safety features, lack of comfort, inability to meet the
- performance of 1993 models, inability to pull trailers like trail-pulling
- cars, inability to carry a half dozen people like a minivan or station
- wagon, inability to get them repaired and maintained at ordinary service
- stations.... Again, the 1000 is an antique personal computer, the same
- place occupied by in the Amiga universe that the original Mac occupies in
- the Mac world or the 64 KB IBM PC occupies in the PC compatible world. The
- difference is, that there are people who are still buying Amiga 1000s with
- the idea that they can -use- them, and then complain that the 1000s don't
- meet minimum required usefulness! HARRUMMPH !
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