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- From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon IBM emul: speed guesses?
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 03:53:40 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Dec21.224835.1008@informix.com>
- Reply-To: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
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- In a previous article, robert@informix.com (Robert Coleman) says:
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- >
- >
- > But I'm not kidding myself; Atari has a history of making poor
- >marketing decisions. If they promoted this machine right, I think it could
- >make history...but I don't believe that's gonna happen.
-
- The way I see it, Atari's going to have to launch two major Falcon030
- advertising campaigns this year and increase distribution beyond
- your local (hahahah) independent Atari Dealerships.
-
- One will have to be around March/April. The advertising campaign
- will have to promote it as a multi-media computer and in music magazines,
- a music computer.
-
- But, dealers like Walden Software will have to be signed.
-
- And I think another one around September/October...
-
- We'll see. You are right, it all depends on Atari advertising it and
- how well they do at advertising it.
-
- >
- > One thing I'm very pessimistic about is whether Atari will be able to
- >lure games programmers from the PC world into the Atari camp. Will there ever
- >be a Wing Commander for the Atari? A lot of the reason why some game
- >producer's dropped the Atari (for instance Sierra's stated reason) was that
- >it was murder to support Atari graphic standards in addition to VGA, and since
- >the Falcon can handle VGA, it could just be a matter of dusting off Sierra's
- >Atari graphics engine (though there's still the matter of sound) to get Sierra
- >back into the fold.
-
- You know, I was thinking about getting a major letter writing campaign
- together and try to get software companies to support the Falcon030.
-
- But, if a representative like Sierra visits Atari and is treated in
- much the same way as Dave Baggett, my efforts will be wasted.
-
- I have to get some confidence in Atari before I start mailing letters out.
-
- > But again, Wing Commander? I doubt it...and I really want to play
- >Wing Commander.
- >
- > So, the Falcon's gonna be able to take a 286, 386, or 486 SX chip
- >running at 16 mhz. Maybe someone will actually make that happen. My question,
- >based on a probably faulty understanding of the technology (hint: that's a
- >plea for no flames, please! I confess ignorance in advance! :-) ) is, based
- >on educated guesses, will a 486SX chip in a Falcon produce a machine that
- >will run as fast or faster than, say, a 386DX in a "standard" clone at,
- >say, 33 Mhz (a configuration I've heard is a minimum for playing Wing
- >Commander without serious slowdown).
-
- What I don't understand is why did a company make a 286 emulator and
- then announce they will make a 486 emulator.
-
- What happened to 386?
-
- >Robert C.
- >--
- >----------------------------------------------
- >Disclaimer: My company has not yet seen fit to
- > elect me as spokesperson. Hmmpf.
- >
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