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- From: naffara@crc.ac.uk (Dr. N.A. Affara)
- Subject: Re: Gemulator (Falcon emulator?) -- Vapor
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.124521.29119@crc.ac.uk>
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- Organization: MRC Human Genome Resource Centre
- References: <1992Aug26.110422.18126@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <64741@cup.portal.com> <1992Sep4.095231.3765@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 12:45:21 GMT
- Lines: 60
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- In article <1992Sep4.095231.3765@spcvxb.spc.edu>, mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
- > In article <64741@cup.portal.com>, Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
- > > Jeff Young writes:
- > > {stuff deleted}
- > > The GEMulator is (read my lips) an *ST EMULATOR* **NOT** a Falcon
- > > Emulator.
- > >
- > > Whatever the Falcon is, or someday may be has nothing AT ALL to do with
- > > whether or not the GEMulator does anything or nothing in a PC..
- > >
- > > Is this a difficult concept to grasp, or what..?
- >
- > I'm amazed that you guys are still spending so much energy debating about
- > Atari's vaporware.
- Is the GEMulator from Atari? (Or do you mean the Falcon)
- > 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)? They made the same price claims then..."get your 32bit
- > 680X0 box for less than $1000 and blow the doors off your neighbor".
- This is what's known as ADVERTISING. The machine may well be that powerful
- but as in most adverts they don't tell you the whole story. (ie you need to
- get a monitor and hard disk as well.) In this case their claim is justified
- as the monitor and hard disk won't affect the performance, although you can't
- use a TT without.
-
- I admit, it would be nice to buy what is being advertised :-)
-
- BTW I don't think the Falcon is being advertised yet. From what I have heard,
- the only official info is from the show in Germany. Everything is rumour.
- ***You can't complain that you can't buy something that is only _rumoured_ to
- exist!!!***
-
- >
- > 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.
-
- Maybe people who *HATE* PC's?
- (I'm not so sure about "risk" or "orphaned" though)
-
- > Damn, that felt good. Now I'll go back to comp.sys.mac.misc
- > and put all those Falcon posters in my kill file. :-)
- >
- And with any luck you will stay there...
-
- > Have a nice day,
- >
- > Chris
-
- Phil (Atari fan)
- (E-mail naffara@uk.ac.crc)
-
- --
- Kryten (When Cat says why don't we raise the defensive shields?) "A superlative
- suggestion sir,with only two drawbacks: one,we don't have any defensive shields
- and two,we don't have any defensive shields.I know that,technically,that's only
- one drawback,but it was such a big one I thought I'd mention it twice".
-