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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!tulane!rouge!das9674
- From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
- Subject: Re: Dan got the Amiga 1000!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.014913.1416@usl.edu>
- Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
- References: <Paula_Lieberman.07p4@amicol.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 01:49:13 GMT
- Lines: 90
-
- In article <Paula_Lieberman.07p4@amicol.UUCP> Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman) writes:
- >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.....
-
- This is from the person who hates GUIs. Hmm.
-
- What *do* you do for FUN, Paula? Do you go to feminist rallies?
- Well, I play computer games for fun, this post's obligatory
- advocacy is that once the Amiga could count on always having the best games,
- and not anymore. I would never consider buying an Amiga if half
- its game vendors were pondering giving up on the Amiga.
-
- And so I am a lost potential customer.
-
- >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!
-
- Congratulations.
-
- You advocate the Amiga by citing how you never runs games on
- it- fine.
-
- >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
-
- Good grief, Paula, what is the world are you doing with an Amiga?
-
- Macs and PCs excel in the type of software you use. Now is you said
- 'I work for the local access channel, I do their video work', that is
- one things, but you msotly do _word _processing_ and _spreadsheets_?
-
- You know, if you were a PC user saying that, Amigan-game-freaks
- would flame you for being 'boring' for using such mundane software,
- when you could be a COOL DUDETTE and code mega-eurodemos.
-
- Good for you, in this regard, it just seems odd that Amigas would be your
- choice.
-
- >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 !
-
- Whew, mighty long-winded, eh? 8)
-
- I have had numerous disclaimers about 'yes, I know this A1000 is old'
- and also said I'd ignore long diatribes such as above ( ^ ). So I'll
- stop. So there.
-
- >-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
-
- So...I never got it- why can you not quote?
- --
- 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, comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
-