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- From: rlt20429@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Psycho)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: wing commander flames and
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:37:56 GMT
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- Dear Al
-
- I never once flamed the amiga as a machine it self. I like the amiga and find
- it the best machine out there (though no longer for the best price). I do
- not see the IBM as the end all computer, (and for that matter I don't own an
- IBM :-) ) nor do I see commodore as behind the times (though when they nuked
- 1/2 the R&D department they must have been flirting with the idea). My prob
- with the amiga is not the machine, which I now look upon, the ragtag out of
- date A2000, (and before you start screaming A1200 or 4000 I know the 2000
- is obsolete as the xt bridge card inside it), but with the company behind it.
- Commodore has NEVER been able to make big move into the PC market and lets
- face it thats where the money is. Anyone can sit in the splender of their
- great machine, but alas with software support dwindling, dealers crumbling,
- and the machine STILL perceived by most of those computer cretins as only a
- game machine, (the A600 box with the nice picture of robocop reinforces this
- untrue opinion), you will be like a king without a kingdome, a computer
- without software. Now I am sure that the cry of Europe is on your breath
- at this moment, but let me state it poeticly, big fucking deal. I have had
- a correspondence with an Amiga owner in Europe and he said that amiga does not
- get a much better rap there. Perhaps the Europeans are more perceptive then
- the American computer buyers, and can see the gem the amiga really is, but
- that is of no matter. The biggest computer market is the US (remember when
- commodore stock jumped to 18 after they announced the 2mil unit sale (think
- it was 2 mil) anyways when it was known that they were sold in europe it was
- bac to 7), and commodore USA is dieing. What the amiga COULD do is far greater
- then what it has done, but what is WILL do is seriously in doubt.
-
- RT a.k.a. Psycho
-