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- From: Julian_Reschke@ms.maus.de (Julian Reschke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Gemulator (Falcon emulator
- Message-ID: <A47272@MS.maus.de>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 15:42:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: MS.A47272
- References: <A62797@HB.maus.de>
- Organization: MausNet
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- mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu wrote:
- >I'm amazed that you guys are still spending so much energy debating about
- >Atari's vaporware. Granted, some Falcons were seen at the "show" in
- >Germany. Do I have to remind everyone how many years Atari showcased
- >the 68020/30 TT before they ever sold one (nobody seems to be buying
- >them anyway)?
-
- Exactly one year. They showed it for the first time on the Atari fair
- in 1989, and they shipped it exactly one year later.
-
- >They made the same price claims then..."get your 32bit
- >680X0 box for less than $1000 and blow the doors off your neighbor".
- >However, when the thing was finally released, the laws of reality
- >took over and by the time you configured the machine with enough
- >things to do any real work, it cost just as much or more than
- >comparable and better supported products from other companies.
- >To make matters worse, Atari's development timetable is so far
- >back from the pack that by the time (except for the original ST)
- >they get anything out the door it is "has been" technology.
-
- For the Falcon, this is obviously not true. It's the first consumer
- machine with these features for sound. And don't forget the DSP.
-
- >Why would anyone take a risk on such an orphaned machine when
- >they can run out and buy a 486box for $1500 (unlike Atari,
- >that includes a few megs of RAM, a decent hard disk, and a
- >minimum of 800x600 color graphics. And you can go out to ANY
- >computer store and buy add-in cards, memory, software, etc.
-
- This of course applies to ANY machine which is not PC compatible.
- Obviously, there IS a markt for those machines, otherwise Atari
- and Commodore's Amigas would have vanished a long time ago. And
- don't forget Apple :-)
-