From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: Re: Dan flipped through an AmigaWorld, and:
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:13:07 GMT

In article <Bz7su9.Ao0@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki) writes:
>In article <1992Dec13.182224.13346@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
>
>>My point was that there is not anyhting common, it would seem, about the Amiga
>>look to things.  With Windows or OS/2, you get a consistant way of things.    
>>Therre couldn't be a 'look and feel' suit against Commodore for the Amiga 
>>because the 'look and feel' changes from app to app.  Tell me this isn't
>>true.  Really, I want to know.
>
>Short: apps that follow the style guide are consistent, apps that don't
>aren't.  Personaly, I LIKE variety (ya know, the thing that Windows
>doesn't have.)

Ohh, you're out to GET me, aren't you! :-)

>>Me?  An expert?  I never claimed I was doing anyhting investigative here. 
>
>You looked at a magazine and commented about the speed, seems kinda
>strange to me...

Nope, never, I never said it was fast.  (Which, you will notice, is a GOOD thing
, and my comments on what I thought was WB2, or at least a facimile thereof,
were negative, so that doesn't makes sense).  I merely summerized what all 
Amigans say: How BLAZINGLY MEGA *FAST* the WB is.  *I* said that it was good
to be so fast, as to launch apps quick to get rid of it to look at.

>>I DID say I 'flipped' through it. I *did* think the Amiga1200/600 looked
>>good, didn't I?  Oh, but I might be wrong.
>
>That, like everything else discussed here, is a personal decision.  I think
>the 1200 and 600 could have been designed a little better.  (The physical
>casing, everything on the inside is JUST fine on the 1200, the 600 however...)

Whatever.  I think it looks good, and that will help sales all the same.  
Really, I don't know why people are down on the Amiga600 SO much!  I meanm,
isn't it better to sell an Amiga600 than NO Amiga at all?

>>Ha! Ha! (laughs audibly)  I *love* throwing things like that in.  Just 
>>keeps you guys up-to-date on those great games like Ultima Underworld-by
>>FAR the best RPG *ever*, 
>
>I'm kind of partial to Shadow Run myself.

What is Shadow Run?  Keep in mind that just because Ultima Underworld really
*is* the best RPG, that doesn't mean Dungeon Master isn't great still, even
after all these years.  I thought about getting the PC port recently, even
though I finished it on a borrowed ST.  But I didn't get it in the end.

>>and Falcon 3.0 -perhaps the best fighter sim
>>on *any* platform.  
>
>Hmmm, I've seen some on an SGI that were quite realistic, but if you say
>so.

Well, I have seen it too.  Sure it updates very well and all, but for
*simulation* purposes, I would doubt it.  Follow me now?  Falcon 3.0's graphics
are certainly accpetable.  The 256 colors are most important, I think, for
good shading.  High resolution is not as important since things get fuzzy
10 miles away, anyway, y'know?   I haven't played with the Microsoft Flight
Simulator 4.0, so that is whyt I called Falcon 3.0 the best '*fighter* sim'.

>>Also, it serves to point out that bare MSDOS machines -
>>the OS that you AMigans bash to hell and back - is what they run 'on'. 
>>I'll do it more now and again to keep you guys from getting too cocky. :)
>
>Please don't make generalizations.  I never said that I don't like clones
>(I don't like MSDOS though) and I know there is a place in the market for
>them.  I don't ever want the choices in the market narrowed down by anyone
>but my self, I'd like to have the option of buying an Amiga 60001, a
>Mac XXVIIcixbl, a Gateway 2000/Superdupertium clone or even an Atari
>Albatross.

Ok, ok, sorry.  I was being cocky myself, some.  A *little* bit.  Mabye. :-)

Note: I have always held that the Amiga500 is a good solid beginners computer. 
Now, maybe the A600. The A1200 comes REAL close, though.  But it depends on
what you want to do, in any case.

>--Jason Balicki
>kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
-- 
Dan Stephenson                                                das9674@usl.edu  
"There once was a Lady from Hyde/who ate some bad apples and died/but while
we lamented/the apples fermented/making cider inside her inside!" 
                        -Member of the Court, Texas Renaissance Festival