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From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Games on consoles
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:35:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: uwm.1992Jul30.213554.19151
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene) writes:
: 	Although I don't own an Amiga anymore, I did see Populus II the other
:    day.  I'd say thats a must have Amiga game.           

I would agree completely, and I own the game.  ;)  I'm still trying to
hack my way through Prometheus, he's been giving me a hard time...

Lets see.   Must have games...  I'd say Falcon, for flight sim fans,
is a must have on the 'miga.  I'd say an 030 is a must have for
falcon, though.  ;)  Not really, but...

And then there's Shadow of the Beast I and II, just to show off the
Amiga a bit with a totally unplayable game that will make you a god if
you can finish without a cheat.

Puzzle fans?  Lemmings would be a must-buy.

Battle Chess was neat.  Of course, I'm a chess player.  :)

Drakkhen is a classic.  It was my first game, and my first-finished.
;)

Gods was awesome.  Bitmap Brothers' best game.

SpeedBall II was a nice-looking fast-playing game that I loved.

Immortal was neat.  Not a must-buy, but fun.

Then of course there's Defender of the Crown.  Everybody's heard of
that.

And then there's WarLords, which still keeps me going for the crown.
Not bad.

I'd say that's a pretty good list.

Greg

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From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Atari Lynx and Amiga   Re: Falcon Rumor?
Date: 26 Jul 92 19:05:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: cheshire.1992Jul26.190515.12765
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.

Warner sold Atari to the Trameils, in return for a small promissory note.

Atari itself has less than $40 million in cash... barely enough to cover
overhead.  It needs to spend all of it in order to launch the Falcon and
the Jaguar with any chance of sucess.  No billions floating around here...

Would Atari be spending $15 million per year in R&D if Warner's billions
were backing it?

Nope.

Thom
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: Commodore and the Osborne Syndrome
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 08:23:28 GMT

In <1992Jul30.215208.21549@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:

>: Must be some bad implementation then.. see above.

>I don't think so.  Not on both.  The one for OS/9 he didn't even
>write, and there was slowdown.

>Note, this PROBABLY won't be apparent to applications that wait for
>user input.  The tests we ran were purposefully processor-intensive,
>using functions and stuff from real-world apps.  Our best test on OS/9
>was from a renderer.

I was always talking about the execution speed of a CPU. If the CPU isn't
busy all the time this might very easy hide any overall slowdown.
However, the 58% slowdown figure someone cited (you?) is still far away
from the nominal slowdown you should experience. That's why I assumed that
the implementation of MP on the OS-9 or RTOS was bad.

Regards,
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From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Upgrade Amiga OR buy 486??
Date: 28 Jul 92 04:49:59 GMT
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana

In article <1992Jul24.140705.10734@digi.lonestar.org> ajahn@digi.lonestar.org (Alfredo Jahn) writes:
>
>The things that the PC lacked 5 years ago are no longer an issue. With OS/2
>or that PD Berkeley Unix available (for free), the 640K barrier has been broken
>and multi-tasking is a reality.  Of course, MS-DOS still sucks (with their UPPER 
>CASE FILE NAMES), but thats not a problem with Unix or OS/2. There are X-Window 
>server packages, 24 bit graphics, competitively priced add-ons, multi-media, DTP,
>you name it!
>        
>So, what do you net.amiga.experts recommend?  (I don't even want to ask the 
>MS-DOS gang). Please be honest.
>
I'm an OS/2 gang member. Does that count?  I'm inthe TKKC, too.

Anyway, I am very impresses with OS/2 filesystem, for example.  Now I 
have much more flexiblity in how I name a file than in UNIX! LIke, this
is ans example:

Engineering Methods lab report (due next Tuesday!)

Yep, that's aperfectly acceptable filename.  And hard disk operations
are a lot faster too.  This is espicially noticiable if file maintenance things if you've recently been used to MS-DOS'
s FAT.  OS/2 2.0's High Perforamance File System is jsut that - andgreat at it.


Well, that's one nice aspect about that 486/50PC you're thing about....
not to mention using the 486 FPU for the 'high fidelity' flight model
in Falcon 3.0.  :-)

>
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From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: I am giving up on the Amiga
Date: 28 Jul 92 05:07:14 GMT
Organization: Amiga makes it possible
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Jul27.165845.23732@ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
> mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:
> >
> >Turbo C++ 3.1 takes 30Megs for full blown installation.  I've seen either
> >Jerry Shenkhel or Dan Stephenson post that a full blown OS/2 2.0 installation
> >takes 40Megs - including online manual and everything.  That's 70Megs of
> >stuff to fit on a 60MB hard drive :)  Even at 30 Megs each, you don't have
> >any HD left for VM or source code or PD programs (or ...).
> >
>
> OS/2 2.0 takes 33MB on my system -- that's a full installation.
> Borland C++ 3.1 -- on my system it's about 22MB, but I don't have the
> Application Frameworks (Windows/DOS GUI C++ class libraries).
>

Three people who have installed 3.1 in the last week tell me it is
30Megs.  That's still 63Megs on a 60Meg drive :)

> >
> >Frankly, my friends who have 120Meg drives on their PCs (they use DOS) say
> >that they need more HD space...  As well, you could use Stacker or some other
> >HD compression to make some room, but I neither trust these apps nor would I
> >want my Compiler or OS to be decompressing my commonly used files all the time -
> >slows everything way down :)
> >
>
> Not really.  With a decent CPU, the fact that less data is being read
> from the disk balances out the extra CPU time spent decompressing the data.
> On the other hand, it would probably hurt multitasking systems more than it
> hurts DOS.
>

I do not trust stacker-type programs.  I have heard too many horror stories
of partially compressed/decompressed data being lost when the power fails :)
And it obviously hurts multitasking systems, especially if you have DMA
hard drive controller!

> Mike, please learn to spell my name.
>


Shekhnel?  Shecknhel?  Shenkenyl?  Shekhel?

I think I got it now :)

> >
> >Mike Schwartz  (ames!zorch!amiga0!mykes or mykes@amiga0.sf-bay.org)
> >
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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Subject: Re: Obituary [Amiga's] in Silicon Valley newspaper
Originator: torrie@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: 27 Jul 92 07:20:50 GMT

TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:

>re: Accidental Empires

>if you are involved in any way with the PC industry, whether you use a
>computer, or you design the processors that go into them, you've
>got to read this book.

>You can debate individual events, or opinions, but Cringely brings a
>sense of perspective to the computer industry that is lacking from
>the likes of the typical PC columnist.

  Bob is a neat guy (I've met him on one occasion).  He certainly
seems to dislike Bill Gates, and also doesn't have that much
time for Steve Jobs' temperament.  For those who don't know, 
Bob Cringely was one of the first Apple Computer Inc. employees; 
I think he told me he was employee #7, so he's a journalist
who came from the inside, rather than those journalists who sit
on the outside looking in.

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From: hjalmar@cbmswe.se.so.commodore.com (Peter Hjalmarsson Sweden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re:  PC's vs. mortals
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:12:09 GMT
Reply-To: hjalmar@cbmswe.se.so.commodore.com (Peter Hjalmarsson Sweden)
Organization: Commodore Sweden

In article <9403@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:
>Ahem, please check your information database :-). Commodore is considered
>a major player in this market here in Europe and *introduced* a new 286
>model last year

Yes, it *was* nice. Now, however, it has been dropped, at least in Sweden,
and in the rest of Europe as well, as soon as stock is cleared in each country.

The Commodore lowend is 386SX nowadays (with the C64 slightly more upmarket :-).

>Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to \\  Only my personal opinions...
>Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk

Sorry to correct a fellow Commodorian. (Hope I am right, I'll buy you a beer
next time I'll get to Frankfurt otherwise.)


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: gerald@seas.gwu.edu (Gerald G. Washington)
Subject: Re: I am giving up on the Amiga
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 13:15:10 GMT

cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP) writes:
>gerald@seas.gwu.edu (Gerald G. Washington) writes:
>>Okay, so the A500 and 386 system have roughly the same price.  That meets
>>one of your comparison criteria.  They do not have roughly the same perform-
>>ance or capabilities.  You may as well compare 386 systems to component
>>stereo systems.
>
>I don't think A500 and 386 system have roughly the same price. For the
>price of A500, you just can get the 386 mother board unless you buy it
>as second hand. However, A500 has already had 4096 colors, 4 channels 8
>bit sound, all external port, floppy drive, mouse...

We were speaking of useable systems including the monitor and harddrive.  You
may be surprised at the prices of 386 systems.

>If you can buy AdSpeed,($149 from Montgomery, new) you will have the
>power of low end 386 system.

Hmmm...

-- Gerald
From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Perot ?
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 09:05:04 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Who destroyed the Savings and Loan system?

It was rea...

Nope, just kidding. A guy who had a lot to do with it was,

Jim Wright, congressman from texas.

He resigned just before the real S&L fiasco could  hit.

BTW, he resigned over selling his autobiography to labor unions and
such for $7,000 a copy to get around the financial contribution limit.

Be careful bringing up the S&L debacle, the truth is a lot more 
horrid and mundane (interesting, no?) than is believed.
From: foax@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: ! Pournelle [sic] says that there is a new amiga !
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:41:03 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

In article <jbickers.0cb6@templar.actrix.gen.nz>,
jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes: 
> Quoted from <1992Jul29.023453.12024@trl.oz.au> by aduncan@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan):
> 
>> This has been a continuing drift to Intel worship.  But remember - a lot
>> of the early Amigas were sold on the basis of the Byte reviews.
> 
>     Really? Wasn't their first Amiga review the one that faulted the
>     CLI because it wasn't enough like MS-DOS?
> 
>     The chap who wrote that, funnily enough, ended up doing a lot of
>     Mac stuff for them after a while. Wierd. But still, EVEN THEN this
>     MS-DOS compatibility thing was considered an issue by BYTE.

One could argue about whether MS-DOS compatibility was important or not.
I certainly don't blame BYTE for suggesting it.  Frankly I don't have
any memory of whether they mentioned it or not.  What I do remember is
that their "preview" (rather than a review) was the first major info
I got about the Amiga, made me really feel excited about the machine,
and actually got me started reading BYTE as well.

(No, it didn't make me buy an Amiga--I was still in high school then.)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
Subject: Re: I am giving up on the Amiga
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 06:41:06 GMT

If you are using OS/2 on a 386sx, then you are certainly using it for the
sole purpose of multi-tasking DOS apps... which is a waste... come on, we
all know that the sole reason for OS/2's existence is the high end, and
preserving IBM's position in the mainframe to network transition.

The fact that it runs Windows and DOS is a side-issue, a selling point to
reassure Fortune 500 MIS people that they're software base won't need to
be replaced/that they won't have to invest and maintain a seperate system.

OS/2 is not a consumer, mid-range system... AmigaDOS is.  If we are
comparing apples to oranges, why not put OS/2 up against another high 
level language... say, some brand of Unix?

Thom
From: jones@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Jones (Dr. Jones))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: MSH & 2.04
Date: 29 Jul 92 04:29:47 GMT
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo

Hello,

I am looking for the version of MSH: that works with 
AmigaDOS 2.04.

I have seen it but have not been able to locate it
on the archie's that I've tried.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!   :-)
(please respond via e-mail)

Thanks
Scott A Jones
jones@plains.nodak.edu
From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: I am giving up on the Amiga
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 15:25:53 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <mykes.0ala@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG>

Well, after all that well thought out, polite dialog over the
merits of OS/2 as an OS and WPS as a GUI, here's today's handy
OS/2 hint:

You can tell if an OS/2 application has been launched (or is 
currently running) by looking at the icon. If the background
turns to "stripes", then OS/2 is mulling things over.

Sorry for the interuption, I think someone was just commenting
on some other fellow's mother...

TomK@cup.portal.com
Tom Krotchko
From: doctor@k9.UUCP (Paul Broe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Commodore and the Osborne Syndrome
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:24:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: k9.doctor.01d6
Organization: You have to be kidding...
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Jul26.234652.41894@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> cuadrasola@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> system 7 are extremely succesful products.  Why does Commodore think that OS
> 2.1 would not sell if they release some oficial comments about it?  Why does't
> Commodore want to keep its customers exited?  Why are they actually taking
                                       ^^^^^^

Interesting typo. (Unfortunately the typo might be what happens.)

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From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
Subject: Re: I'm a bit scared...
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:18:56 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.132701.21506@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys) writes:

>You should have waited until late 1992 for the Falcon 030 or
>for the new Amigas in the second half of 1993.

Second half of 1993? Am I the only person that parsed the words "significant",
"World of Commodore Amiga Pasadena" and "COMDEX" in CBM's response to the
Robinson article? 

>Big mistake.

Any purchase is relative to the needs of the individual user. If an A2000
fulfills this mandate, then the more to you. Of course, the relative
price/performance ratio of the A2000 to A3000 is substantial, making this
more of a gaffe in my mind. This may change within six weeks however.

Mark

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From: jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel)
Subject: Re: Amigas are cool
Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:48:50 GMT
X-Posted-From: connection.prospect.com
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

ata@hfsi.UUCP (John Ata FSO) writes:
>>
>> This is like saying, "Credit cards are overrated.  You can always carry
>> more cash.
>>
>
>Carrying this analogy further, then I take it you wouldn't do business with
>a store that didn't accept credit cards, even if you didn't have to use it,
>right? :)
>

I just know that I wouldn't go on vacation without a credit card, no matter
how much cash I was carrying (within reason, of course)! :)

>
>John G. Ata - Technical Consultant | Internet:     hfsi!ata@UUNET.UU.NET
>
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From: mac1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Mubashir Cheema)
Subject: Re: Commodore's Reply
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:25:52 GMT

gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:

>mac1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Mubashir Cheema) writes:
>:   Now honestly how many people disagree and really find it
>:   MOST EXCITING time for an Amigan ?

>A lot of users, and a WHOLE LOT of developers.

>Greg



  Hi Greg,
           I am a developer myself but I think maybe I am missing
  something.


Mubashir.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams)
Subject: Re: I am not giving up on the Amiga
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 03:01:26 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.005102.14248@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au> davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (David Meiklejohn) writes:
>>mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>>>
>>>At $6K, the Amiga 2000 with GVP 040
>>>and 24-bit board pushes systems at 4x the cost (i.e. SGI Elan).
>>>
>>
>>Mike, if you think that an Amiga with an accelerator and a 24-bit TIGA
>>board can even begin to approach the performance of an Indigo Elan, you
>>are badly disillusioned.  On the other hand, that Elan graphics board alone
>>costs something like $16K.
>
>I doubt he's talking about a TIGA board - he mentioned GVP 040, so he probably
>means GVP's EGS board, which is directly coupled to their accelerators.  The
>32-bit interface to it can shovel video data straight from the cpu at 50 MB/s.
>It comes with 8 megs of video ram, can do full 24-bit at 1600x1280, and can
>draw lines 24-bits deep at 3 million pixels/sec.  Used with a 27 MIPS cpu
>(040/33), you have a serious system.

While these figures are quite good, they are not in the same league as
a high-end SG machine.  I have the specs of their graphics system in front of
me (VGXT system).

- pixel read/write/copy (with zoom/shrinking) 20MB/sec
- renders spheres at 10 MB/sec
- clears screen at 800 MB/sec
- texture mapping (highest quality) 50 MB/sec

These beasts have 20 pixel processors running in parallel.  If that isn't
enough you can buy a system with 40 processors.  The SG systems also
have a heap of features to remove perspective distortion and hardware
anti-aliasing.  Unfortunately I don't have the price of this system,
but naturally it would be very expensive.

>Oh, and you can run Workbench this board, too, quite smoothly, with excellent
>responsiveness.  I'd buy one, but they cost $$$$$.

I'd buy one too.

>David Meiklejohn                  | Internet : davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au

-- 
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From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Obituary [Amiga's] in Silicon Valley newspaper
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 13:57:58 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

re: Accidental Empires

if you are involved in any way with the PC industry, whether you use a
computer, or you design the processors that go into them, you've
got to read this book.

You can debate individual events, or opinions, but Cringely brings a
sense of perspective to the computer industry that is lacking from
the likes of the typical PC columnist.

Unlike his poor imitators, Cringely can *write*.

TomK@cup.portal.com
Tom Krotchko
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