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- EsCommodore,
- Branson,
- Microsoft
- and PCs
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- DON'T Read This If
- You Just Bought A PC
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- I'll get to Branson, Microsoft and PCs in a minute, but first EsCom.
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- So EsCom have bought Commodore, they own the Amiga. Rumours from good sources
- talk about an A1800. Basically an A1200 with more memory, hard disk, CD etc.
- costing about 400 pounds. Out in time for Christmas '95.
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- People who have jumped ship to the PC insist that it's only a rumour and
- couldn't possibly be true, not at that price.
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- Why the hell not?
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- Last year A1200s were selling for as low as 250 pounds.
- Double speed CD Rom drives are falling fast in price. A computer manufacturer
- could buy them in bulk for buttons. The price of 68030 chips is about what
- 68020s cost back then. A 120mb IDE hard disk, forty quid at the most in bulk.
- Thirty quid perhaps for two more megs of memory?
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- When you THINK about it, an A1200 with 68030, 120mb HD, Dual Speed CD-ROM and
- 4megs of memory could very easily retail at four hundred.
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- How many Byte salesmen are going to persuade the average punter to pay six
- hundred quid more for a PC because it has a faster processor and a monitor?
- Even if the average punter could afford the extra six hundred quid I think
- that they'd rather spend it on printers and other peripherals.
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- Remember average punters buy their computers from the likes of Byte, they
- don't build them from parts bought through mail order.
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- The average punter is the person who buys games from the average games
- software house. The average games software house comprises people who want to
- write games for the biggest market.
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- Whether that market is Sega, Nintendo or A1800.
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- More memory, faster processor and CD-ROM, equals much, much better games.
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- The purveyors of word processors and spreadsheets don't ignore a large user
- base of 32 bit machines equipped with hard disk drives. The price is good too
- because Mr. Average Punter doesn't want to pay five hundred quid for a word
- processor that takes up 40 megs of his hard disk.
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- No wonder the PC owners are scared, they don't want to go back to a situation
- where the majority of fun stuff comes out on Amiga and the PC mags are full of
- spreadsheet reviews.
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- Go round to the home of some PC-owning idiot. Get them to dig out the Encarta
- CD-ROM, the one that they got free with their crap 486 SX 25 from Freeman's
- catalogue; which, in four years time when they've paid the last payment, will
- have cost them nearly three grand, yet will have a second hand value of 50
- pence.
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- On *MICROSOFT'S* Encarta CD, look up Microprocessors and Microcomputers,
- search for Intel, Motorola, IBM etc.
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- After reading a little way, you could be forgiven for thinking that Microsoft
- invented the PC and that IBM and Intel were mere bystanders.
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- Spit when you realise that the people who compiled this CD-ROM for Microsoft
- have mentioned Macintosh, Macintosh and Apple Macintosh in relation to the
- Motorola 680XX series of chips.
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- Is the Amiga mentioned? The Atari ST? Europe's best selling computers?
- Na-ah.
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- What else have these rats conveniently forgotten to mention, I daren't look up
- computer operating systems.
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- Encarta, apart from this kind of bias, is a very good product. It contains
- megabytes of informative text, pictures and sound.
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- Why then does it contain an .exe file that will run under Windows to access
- this data, yet they couldn't spare a few k to include a program that would
- allow the data to be accessed in the same way on "non-Windows" machines.
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- Amigas can play .wav files and .fli anims, show gifs and tiffs.
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- When other people have compiled CDs full of pics, sounds and graphics they
- often include viewer and player programs for the PC, the Amiga and others.
- Not Microserf. They are flaming scumbag papholes. Bill Gates wants to run
- the world.
-
- And so does Richard Branson. Richard will only be happy when:-
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- 1 You buy a game from a Virgin shop.
- 2 The game is published by Virgin Games.
- 3 You play it on a Virgin PC.
- 4 While you listen to Virgin Radio.
- 5 To an artist signed to Virgin Records.
- 6 Whose latest LP can be bought at a Virgin record shop.
- 7 Whose latest video can be seen on Channel 5 Virgin TV.
- 8 While you drink Virgin Cola.
- 9 Etc.
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- Pop 'round to Dixons. Say to the spotty twit in Dixons that you'd like to buy
- a computer. For use in your home. A home computer. You want games. You
- want a good user-friendly operating system. You want the ability to use
- CD-ROMs. You want 32 bit. When he takes you to look at some big PC costing a
- grand or upwards tell him that you only want to spend half that or less.
- Repeat the bit about a USER FRIENDLY operating system.
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- He'll tell you that with easy monthly payments you won't even notice the 27.9%
- APR. In three to four years you could fully own the PC from Dixons. He'll
- tell you to take no notice of the people coming in to make payments off the
- 286 and 386 machines that they bought ages ago that run naff all now.
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- If you have good cash burning a hole in your pocket and you are itching to
- upgrade to a more powerful machine: Don't buy an Amiga 4000, don't spend too
- much upgrading your present Amiga. Whatever you do DO NOT buy a freaking PC.
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- Wait.
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- The RISC chips are getting cheaper and cheaper. The next generation of
- machines is just around the corner. The Sega Saturn and other high-powered
- Jap consoles will redefine the term videogame. The technology will migrate to
- the desktop machines. In the next two years the people with sense will be
- buying fantastic RISC workstations, while the morons are still paying off
- their Pentium storage heaters.
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- Hey, and if we are really lucky, and if there is any justice in this world,
- EsCommodore or whoever, will be producing RISC based Amigas, if rumours are
- true, by November 1996.
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- The old Commodore did the research, Hewlet Packard said they will provide the
- chip. A fantastically fast chip, a chip with a 68000 emulation built in.
- AmigaDOS will run on this chip. OS legal software will only have to be
- re-compiled, NOT re-written.
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- If you have seen the Saturn running Virtua Fighting, if you have played
- Daytona racing in the arcades then you'll hardly believe me when I tell you
- that the Amiga RISC (if it's built) will eat these systems alive.
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- If the Commodore Pet, was first generation desktop, the C64 etc. second
- generation, the ST and Amiga etc. third generation and the current high-end
- machines fourth generation, then the new super-RISC machines are the fifth
- generation, the new generation, the next generation.
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- You'd be mad to spend more than a few hundred quid on your computing at this
- point in time. Bender's Renders Eat Deer ;).
-
- P.S. Some good news for PC owners!
- I've been talking to a mate who is a genuine official beta tester for
- Windows 95. He's got the very latest version and it's excellent. Better
- than Workbench 3.1 in many ways, worse in others. You can't pull a
- screen down and view the one behind. It will eat up thirty megs of hard
- disk space and likes loadsa RAM. However it will allow those of you who
- own a PC to experience a little of what we Amiga users have had all
- along. So save up your pennies peecee owning muppets. ;)))
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