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- From: boberg@lysator.liu.se (Stefan Boberg)
- Subject: Re: No AGA for current users!?! *Excuse Me?*
- Message-ID: <1628@lysator.liu.se>
- Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News)
- Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
- References: <1992Sep13.195348.25807@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 23:09:34 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- bdnee@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Bandes Dessinee) writes:
-
- >This AGA chipset incompatibility thing wouldn't piss me off nearly so much if
- >they had introduced DIG/RTG/whatever the hell they choose to call it FIRST.
- >Commodore would be nowhere without the existing userbase, couldn't they have
- >the decency to look out for us first, before introducing something that
- >makes our machines obsolete?
-
- Obsolete, adj. : no longer used ; out of date ; old-fashioned
-
- Has Commodore's release of the A4000 in some way affected your A3000 so
- that you can no longer use it? How is your A3000 different today from what
- it was four days ago (when no A4000 officially existed)? You can still use
- it, but if you want better graphics you have to buy a new computer. So
- what? If a car manufacturer brings out a new model with a better engine
- you have to sell your current car and buy a new one - do you get pissed
- off at the manufacturer? Probably not.
-
- Commodore has been much better than most other computer manufacturers
- in this respect. Just look at the Mac for instance - none of the early
- models are upgradable to a Quadra.
-
- >I have faith that some brilliant third party developer will find a way to
- >incorporate the new chips, I remember people telling me that my a1000 could
- >never be upgraded, that the 2000 was dead when the 3000 appeared. And you
- >know, they were wrong. This new development just isn't going to get me to
- >buy an a4000, unless Commodore offers a REAL upgrade deal, something that
- >isn't going to cost me my life savings.
-
- Don't count on it. The difference between A3000 <-> A4000 is so much
- bigger than A1000<->A2000 or A3000<->A2000, the A3000 was basically an
- A2000 with 68030, flickerfixer and built-in HD interface. The A2000 was
- only an A1000 with Zorro II slots. The A4000 has an entirely new graphics
- chipset that cannot be used in old machines. You would need an entirely
- new motherboard, and then you could just as well buy an A4000.
-
- >Time to stop buying Commodore products, i think, unless they get their act
- >together and start treating their userbase decently.
-
- Yeah do that, see CBM go bankrupt, and find that other computer
- manufacturers care even less about existing users. Grow up.
- --
- Stefan Boberg - AP & EE student at Linkoping Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Author of LhA, ArjA and LhArcA. Co-author of Alien Breed, Project X, Full
- Contact and Miami Chase.
- EMail: boberg@lysator.liu.se, lha@augs.se FidoNet: 2:204/404
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