From: Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Dan got the Amiga 1000!
Distribution: world
Date: 26 Dec 92 13:52:58 EDT
Organization: Amiga Colony BBS

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.....

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! 

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
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 !


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