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- From: leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry)
- Subject: Re: Lighten up about the FALCONS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.122704.8081@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:27:04 GMT
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- In article <BxJF2o.9wx@ucunix.san.uc.edu> klasmekj@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Kevin J. Klasmeier) writes:
- >Listen prople, why buy a computer which has no real software. Why don't
-
- I would.
-
- >we all just take a pill and cool off. Even if Atari made the Christmas
- >deadline, the lack of software (software meaningful for the Falcon)
-
- 1) Most of the old software should still work (although 3x faster)
- 2) If the A1200 gets out first it will have a considerable advantage over the
- Falcon, however inferior it is (remember Betamax v VHS?).
- 3) Software will only be written in quantity once the machine has been
- officially released (people have been caught out once before with that
- games console that Atari sent to developers last year, only to withdraw it
- later, then there was the Abaq which was 6 months from being released at one
- stage, not to mention the CD-ROM that was fully reviewed in PCW at one stage).
- 4) There would be software written for it after I had one for a week :-)
-
- >would create a problem. You can't expect developers to come up with
- >quality software in less that six months, not even Microsoft can produce
- >that fast. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- If you were not American I would think you were being sarcastic.
-
- >You people who are whining that Atari missed the Christmas rush, would
- >be the first people to cry about the lack of software for the FALCON.
-
- There will be much less software in 6 months if it is not released before
- Christmas.
-
- >
- >Sigh, just caaaaalm down....
- >
- >Kevin Klasmeier
- >[Suddenly feeling laaaiiiid back ;^> ]
-
- - Leo
-