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- From: ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: 1200/4000 pricing
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 00:45:43 GMT
- Organization: University of New Hampshire - Durham, NH
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- '>Geese... and I'll bet the new AGA games, flight simulators, entertainment,
- '>and multimedia software are going to be killer. Amiga and PC are going
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- Yeah, but I don't want to wait years for those killer AGA games to
- come out, IF at all. I look around and see software companies dropping
- Amiga support, not becoming active.
-
- '>to be parting ways, big time. The VESA local bus... fast VGA... what
- '>are they good for? They are new and it will not be like AGA where
- '>there is a standard base machine for games/entertainment software to
- '>be written for. ...24-bit gfx, what are you going to do with it on the
-
- I don't see the A1200 as being the standard base machine, I see the
- A600 as being that, and it doesn't have AGA.
-
- '>I have to get a PC, but I'm uneasy about it even with a $2000 486DX. I
- '>think what I might to is just buy the cheapest used 386sx clone I can
- '>find and then take a wait and see. I just really don't need a 486. I'd
- '>like to see the CD-ROM Amigas and the Quad Sync monitors which I hope
- '>have composit input.
-
- You usually advocate the Amiga, so I assume you have one. Why don't
- you get a bridge board or some other 3rd party PC card for your Amiga?
- That sounds like a better alternative for you.
-
- Greg Greene
- ggg@kepler.unh.edu
-
- '> NCW
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