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- From: marnold@cwis.unomaha.edu (Matthew Eldon Arnold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
- Subject: Impulse defects!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.012208.14255@news.unomaha.edu>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 01:22:08 GMT
- Sender: news@news.unomaha.edu (UNO Network News Server)
- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
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- Just read the Summer 1992 issue of the Impulse Gazette. Allow me to post some
- of the more disturbing passages.
-
- "IMPULSE HAS NO INTENTION OF DUMPING THE AMIGA. NOT NOW, NOT LATER.
- We know of the horror stories of people buying software from a vendor and then
- finding that the guys and gals who wrote that software had packed up all of
- their keyboards and like thieves in the night, they left the Amiga sitting on
- the street corner, whimpering, with soft brown puppy dog eyes. Seriously, we
- are going to put Imagine on the 386/486 platform but by no means are we going
- to forget about YOU."
-
- "So why put out a PC version. There are two reasons. First and most capital-
- istic is that we here at Impulse would very much like to be able to keep the
- doors open. The second reason is that the PC 386/486 and soon to be 586 are
- dirt cheap. When you compare an Amiga with a PC you better have a Gold Card
- to get everything that you need with an Amiga. You probably already have a
- complete understanding of this fact."
-
- "Imagine if you will the following. You can buy a 486 PC with a 180 Meg HD,
- 3.5 and 5.25 Floppy, 4 megs of RAM and a 14 inch color monitor for under
- $1600. Oh yeah you get a printer too. Well the 486 rendering engine for
- Imagine moves right along, so you will be able to buy one of these dumb PCs
- and plug it to the Serial port of Your Amiga, Tell Imgaine what you want
- rendered and then let this CHEAP and DUMB PC thing fo all the work. Is that
- great of what."
-
-
- What do you expect these people to say? I must admit their approach is very
- appealing to the Amiga crowd. They could have said, "based on what we've seen
- at the Siggraph 92 show, obviously nothing is special about the Amiga anymore.
- And similarly, nothing is special about the price at which is can do it. We
- are going to make programs for the PC so when the Amiga goes belly up, we wont"
- It was wise of them to phrase it: "the most capitalistic [reason] is that we
- here at Impulse would very much like to keep the doors open." Nice try.
-
- I hate to say it, but the Amiga isn't anything special anymore -- even when
- it comes to video. Even Impulse says clones are cheap, and even they are
- gonna follow to masses for monatery reasons. The Big C had better do
- something real significant in the near future!
-
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