From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: Re: Dan got the Amiga 1000!
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 01:49:13 GMT

In article <Paula_Lieberman.07p4@amicol.UUCP> Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman) writes:
>re article by Dan Stephenson <1992Dec26.033008.2884Aedl.edu> "I might pack
>it up and go back to Ultima Underworld and Falcon 3.0.  You heard of those,
>right?"   I could care less about them, personally -- they're GAMES. My
>idea o computer games is "Let's Play Nuclear War for Training" with the US
>Worldwide Military Command and Control System computers -- that's -my- idea
>of computer games.  Why bother with chintz on single user low power
>systems.....

This is from the person who hates GUIs.  Hmm.

What *do* you do for FUN, Paula?  Do you go to feminist rallies?
Well, I play computer games for fun, this post's obligatory
advocacy is that once the Amiga could count on always having the best games,
and not anymore.  I would never consider buying an Amiga if half
its game vendors were pondering giving up on the Amiga.

And so I am a lost potential customer.

>To be a -bit- seroius -- really, I do NOT care.  The last time I played a
>game on this machine was one or two years ago, with Lemmings demo handed
>out at a BCS (Boston Computer Society) Amiga Users Group meeting, and the
>time before then, some years prior when I was playing with Haitex' 3-D
>glasses that came with a 3-D.  Those are just about the ONLY times I've
>EVER run games software on this machine.  The 1200 HAS had a game, Wing
>Commander, played on it -- because someone at the store I was purchasing it
>at wanted to see how it ran on a 1200, and mine was the only one in sight,
>and I gave permission. -I- wasn't playing it! 

Congratulations.

You advocate the Amiga by citing how you never runs games on
it- fine.

>What I do with my Amigas is telecommunication (case in point in-progress!),
>spreadsheeting, work processing, DTP, some playing around with math stuff,
>some graphics, occasionally sound stuff -- most telecom and productivity
>right now, I'm trying to get a project finished that I used word processing
>and spreadsheeting for.  Yes, I KNOW a lot of people play games on their

Good grief, Paula, what is the world are you doing with an Amiga?

Macs and PCs excel in the type of software you use.  Now is you said
'I work for the local access channel, I do their video work', that is 
one things, but you msotly do _word _processing_ and _spreadsheets_?

You know, if you were a PC user saying that, Amigan-game-freaks 
would flame you for being 'boring' for using such mundane software,
when you could be a COOL DUDETTE and code mega-eurodemos.

Good for you, in this regard, it just seems odd that Amigas would be your
choice.

>Amigas -- but that doesn't include me.  As I've said at other times, I've
>met people using Amiga for marketing and sales businesses, for cancer
>therapy, for scientific research, for checkout of the US Cape Canaveral
>launch facilities (probably the highest-priced equipment any Amigas are
>hooked up to anywhere in the world!), for graphics arts, for doing
>publishing design services bureau work, etc. etc.  If all you want is a
>-games- machines for IBM PC compatible games, then a clone '486 is a LOT
>better machine than a 7 year old, long out of production and years' worth
>of revs and research behind the current Amiga OS and hardware in
>production, machine to use!   The 1000 is an ANTIQUE, it's a "classic
>computer."  I see people out driving proudly in their antique automobiles,
>with special"antique car" license plates -- but I DO NOT hear them COMPLAIN
>about their lack of safety features, lack of comfort, inability to meet the
>performance of 1993 models, inability to pull trailers like trail-pulling
>cars, inability to carry a half dozen people like a minivan or station
>wagon, inability to get them repaired and maintained at ordinary service
>stations....  Again, the 1000 is an antique personal computer, the same
>place occupied by in the Amiga universe that the original Mac occupies in
>the Mac world or the 64 KB IBM PC occupies in the PC compatible world.  The
>difference is, that there are people who are still buying Amiga 1000s with
>the idea that they can -use- them, and then complain that the 1000s don't
>meet minimum required usefulness!  HARRUMMPH !

Whew, mighty long-winded, eh? 8)

I have had numerous disclaimers about 'yes, I know this A1000 is old'
and also said I'd ignore long diatribes such as above ( ^ ).  So I'll
stop.  So there.

>-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

So...I never got it- why can you not quote?
-- 
Dan Stephenson                                         das9674@usl.edu  
"Yes Dan, I have heard of Ultima Underworld.  From my point of view it
 appears to be a rather large stick which you seem to be using to beat
 everbody in this group with." -Mark Steyn, comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
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