pc bits soooo cheap

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4 total messages Started by jonathan Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:00

#16

Author: jonathan
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:00

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it's a real shame that pc cards eg video & sound , cant be adapted to fit a
towered a1200, things would realy take off.If there was an adaptor available
to use any sound or video card you wanted , i suppose they would have made one
by now ...............if only   :O(

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Re: pc bits soooo cheap

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Author: Terrance Richard Boyes
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:00

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jonathan <URL:mailto:jon@jslim.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> it's a real shame that pc cards eg video & sound , cant be adapted to fit a
> towered a1200, things would realy take off.If there was an adaptor available
> to use any sound or video card you wanted , i suppose they would have made one
> by now ...............if only   :O(

See this months CU Amiga! 

Also the Siamese system that's been available for a while now can
do this to some extent...

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Re: pc bits soooo cheap

#17

Author: Darren
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:00

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jonathan (jon@jslim.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: it's a real shame that pc cards eg video & sound , cant be adapted to fit a
: towered a1200, things would realy take off.If there was an adaptor available
: to use any sound or video card you wanted , i suppose they would have made one
: by now ...............if only   :O(

I don't believe it is possible,buffering, chip compatibility etc.....:-(

I agree completely, the hardware is SO cheap for the PC, it really pisses me
off when I pay a bomb to buy bits and bobs for the Amiga. What is really
crazy is that I am a PC tech, trained by the RAF, now contracted to various
companies. I suppose that is what makes me use an Amiga. For what my
Amiga1200 setup now stands me at I could have produced a mega PC.

I think that it would be great if it was possible to intergrate such items
as soundcards, graphics adapters etc, but from my understanding, the cost or
developement costs to produce an adapter for this purpose would be
rediculously expensive.........subsequently, forget it. At the end of the
day, I believe the Amiga to be a much superior operating system compared to
the PC. It's such ashame that Commodore f***ed it all up in the 80's, bad
management, terrible marketing, and the 80's themselves reallylabeled the
Amiga as a games machine..........end of story.

Subsequently, as people got older, the 80's generation moved to what was
marketed as a PURE business machine.the PC. Serious marketing, strong
platform, licensing (open forum), but mainly, the money was there to
develope the PC market rapidly from its already strong foundations.

As i have said many times, to friends etc...., I like the way the Amiga
works, performs, ease of use, user freindly and so on. I have no need for a
6.2 gig HDD or stupid ammounts of ram for DTP. What I have stands my at a
tidy sum, but at least I have more than enough in performance. My main
concern is the the way some Amiga parties are striving towards a system
which will end up as an IBM PC if we don't watch it (that's my own personal
understanding of the PPC).

I could rattle on all night, it's late, I've completely drifted off from the
original text, basically I'm off to bed. I'll probably spam myself just for
being so boring and waffling:-)

Cheers all

Daz.

Re: pc bits soooo cheap

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Author: Neil Bothwick
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:00

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jonathan  said, 

> it's a real shame that pc cards eg video & sound , cant be adapted to fit a
> towered a1200, things would realy take off.If there was an adaptor available
> to use any sound or video card you wanted , i suppose they would have made
> one by now ...............if only   :O(

The new BoXeR from Index will have active ISA slots, enabling the use
of PC graphics cards etc.

Followups set to dta as this has nothing to do with Thor or IP
support.


Neil
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