From: Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 1200/4000 pricing
X-Sender: newtout 0.06 Jan  3 1993
Date: 04 Jan 93  01:17:04

> Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
> From: ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene)
> Message-ID: <1i5v3dINNd6p@mozz.unh.edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
>
> '>There will be a new wave of software written for the AGA machines and the
> '>1200 will be the base.  I don't think this assertion needs a lot of
> '>supporting argument.
>
>      You mean you hope there will be a new wave of software written for the
>   AGA machines.  The A1200 is the base for a very small portion of an
> already
>   niche Amiga computer market.  You are asking alot for software developers

There  is *already* a new wave of software that supports AGA.  Don't forget
that  one does not need to write software *specificaly* for AGA.  The Amiga
may  not  have full RTG to other graphics cards, but it DOES have RTG among
the  different  chipsets  (and  future chipsets, with or without full RTG).
Its  pretty  trivial to add full support for AGA graphics modes.  Its worth
it  to  add  AGA  support  if  for  no other reason than the fact that your
software will look really cool demoed on an AGA machine.

The  "wave" of new software is already here.  It wont be long at all before
practicaly  everything  supports  AGA.   Not  to  mention that the A1200 is
selling  quite  well;  I believe it will do as well or better than the A500
did.

>   to forget 4 million ECS Amigas ( with CBM still having the ECS A600 be the
>   LCD, and probably best seller of all current Amigas ), and suddenly
> develop
>   all this new wave software for the miniscule AGA market.

The  A600  is  the cheapest, however, I dont think it will necessarily sell
the  most.   The  A1200  today costs about the same as the A500 did when it
came  out,  I think they will sell just as well.  A600's will probably sell
well too, but only to those people who simply cannot afford an A1200 anyway
(which  they  will want, and probably save for).  And the fact remains that
you  can  easily  write software that works on 4 million ECS machines, plus
makes full use of AGA on those that have it.

Finaly,  I think some developers will come back / look at the Amiga for the
first  time  when they see how many A1200's and A4000's there are.  If they
continue  selling  the way they are now, there should be at least a million
of  them  in a year (OK, its not that much compared to IBM's, but it should
be  enough  to  get  some attention).  Since they will all support the same
graphics  modes,  with  at  least  256 colours in hi-res and 2 megs ram and
accelerated  speed,  it  should  make it a lot easier to port those VGA and
SVGA  games  over;  especialy  things like the Sim-series (god, I hope they
re-release AGA versions!).

Yes, I think '93 will be a good year for the Amiga!

Oh, and happy new year!  :)

>                                                      Greg Greene
>                                                        ggg@kepler.unh.edu
>
> '>                                  NCW

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