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- From: kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.amiga
- Subject: Re: Atari Falcons $799... WHO CARES! Just emulate it.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.040958.19845@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 04:09:58 GMT
- References: <1992Sep02.184109.8805@microsoft.com>
- Sender: news@athena.cs.uga.edu
- Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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- In article <1992Sep02.184109.8805@microsoft.com> darekm@microsoft.com (Darek Mihocka) writes:
- >The $799 Falcon, who cares! Atari has a long history of announcing vaporware
- >and then either never releasing the product, releasing it in extremely
- >small quantities (to be able to claim that they shipped it), or they ship
- >it either severly crippled or at a much higher price.
- >
- >Their most recent blunders include the Atari TT (the crippled 68030 machine
- >that barely outperforms a 16 Mhz 68000), the ST Book (the notebook that never
- >was), and the "under $1000 68030 machine" Falcon. Notice that the $799 price
- >is for a 1 meg machine with no hard disk. Gee, that's a throwback to the
- >1986 days of the 1040ST! If you want a useful computer with 4 meg, a hard disk
- >and a nice monitor, well, Atari says you'll have to fork over much MORE than
- >the $1000. You can't even use Atari's laser printer with 1 meg machines.
- >
- >So, once again Atari has shot themselves in the foot by releasing an overpriced
- >piece of technology that's already obsolete because they took so long to
- >release it.
- >
- >All this vapor and failing to ship a product gave me a nice idea for a program.
- >In a few days I'll be release a shareware program called Gemulator. It's
- >a 68000 emulator that runs on MS-DOS, and with the appropriate Atari ROM
- >chips plugged into your PC, it emulates an Atari ST. Give me a few months to
- >add 68030 emulation and you'll have yourself a Falcon emulator. Don't waste
- >your money on the real thing and hell, why even lose sleep over it. Chances are
- >slim that you'll see Falcons flooding dealer shelves any time soon.
- >
- >Check Compuserve and GEnie in a few days for the Gemulator file.
-
-
- Look, Darek! You're full of it and you've always been full of it.
- You're a very talented programmer, I'll grant you that, but the
- GEMulator is a ripoff (although not as much of one since the
- original pricing was scrapped). It's neat, yes, but not worth much.
- It's DEFINITELY not as great as you're bragging implies.
-
-
- Steve "You can't reply to me at this Internet address!" Johnson
-