From: danaf@bray1a.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.)
Subject: Re: A3000 is not dead, dammit
Reply-To: danaf@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:48:11 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.221359.5823@gw.wmich.edu>, x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
|> In article <1992Oct14.225119.20453@news.unomaha.edu>, marnold@cwis.unomaha.edu (Matthew Eldon Arnold) writes:

Ohhh-kay. This is REAL .advocacy....

|> 	Funny you should say that.  My clone with OS/2 and sound card,
|> 24 bit color, coprocessed graphics, etc. that costs a lot less
|> than an Amiga 3000 (486 based I might add) usually causes Amiga users
|> to soil their pants.

Yes, it scares me to sh*t that you'd waste that much $$$ on a PC, too...

|> 	Where I can multitask any IBM game (which are on par with
|> Amiga games now adays) and most Amiga games take over the system (unless
|> you personally crack them), the Amiga users have nothing to compare
|> multitasking wars.  My Amiga 500 fanatical friend came over and we
|> played power monger while diskcopying 7 disks in the background (
|> ahem, never mind what they were of course...) of course, he couldn't
|> do this with his Amiga.  He said, "I can do that with my Amiga, I
|> just have to crack it so that I can access it from Workbench 2.0).

"Most" (a word wide open to different interpretations) real Amiga games will
now multitask happily with others. "Most" is not even nearly "ALL", tho it
should be. However, I don't even think this should be part of a computer war,
since it is simply the fault of stupid Amiga game companies, not the computer
itself. If the programs were written correctly, ANY Amiga game could multitask
as easily as the PC's games do, and probably a lot faster and better.

But, a real computer discussion should go far beyond games. The Amiga still
multitasks better than any other computer with any other OS. I have MAC owners
with System 7 that are STILL surprised by my A2000's multitasking power, and PC
/ Windows / OS/2 users that won't admit it, but never seem able or willing to
"show off" THEIR multitasking abilities... or lack of.

As far as utilities and applications go, every single one (another phrase wide
open, this time to flames galore...) multitasks well. I've copied disks,
downloaded files, printed publisher output, rendered pictures, played music,
and edited text, and that was when I had only THREE megs...

|> 	He showed me some impressive sound demos and showed me how
|> his drive can read IBm disks.  So I took over some IBM disks, had
|> him copy his sound demos and brought them over and converted them and
|> played them here.

Why didn't you just put the Amiga disks into your drives and read them there???

}8)

...And I still love the way PC owners are fawning over MOD files. My roommate
played some (really, really horrible) MODs on his 386 the other night, and his
friends were ooohing and ahhhing like he had just discovered electricity or 
something.

|> 	Of course, being a former Amiga owner, I will say this, it
|> certainly takes a lot of clone horsepower to beat a 7mhz Amiga so the
|> Amiga in my opinion is one fantastic computer in a lot of repsects.
|> Just be careful about saying it blows away IBM clones, you just
|> never know who might be reading.
|> 
|> 					-Brad

|> =================================
|> Brad Wardell  **Happy OS/2 2.0 User**
|> Project Director
|> Stardock Systems (SDS)
|> Western Michigan University
|> =================================

Hey! That's a new one! Happy with Half! 

..Halved and Happy?

Hm....					8)

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