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Article #84What's the fuss concluded!
From: Sharon
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 00:00
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So I know now about the amiga...and here's my review. I went ahead and got it! Looking at this from a standpoint of when the damned thing was made...a most excellent and superior machine. From today's perspective I can describe it best with one word....SSSSSLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!! Still I must admit it was kinda cool anyhow and I would be interested if a new Amiga went on the market. Until then I can get by happily with my $250...Thats Right!!! $250 233mhz mmx machine (i built it myself...Motherboard w\onboard sound and video $79, 486 with 16x cdrom $50, cpu $59, fan $13 32 mb ram, &1gb hard drive $50, and the folks got me a zip scsi external drive for xmas :) ). I cannot say for sure but I believe that the pc can run Amiga emmulation software...but I know it can do that for the mac (I am an avid hater of microsoft and support the as little as possible!). Anyway I went to the delightful amiga sight by the "ripper" and found it quite informative! But I also found much defeatism and articles that seem to conceed amiga's defeat in the battle with the pc. I also found that it seems that new hardware for amiga is expensive and has to be mail ordered (YUK). So I decided to sell the Amiga for $30 to another amiga fan friend and use the proceeds on a faster modem. Unfortunately I had let him borrow an old 486 and now he's hooked and wants instead to buy the 486 and upgrade as I did. So I guess I'll be looking for amiga games so I can give it to the kids! Mark-in-the-dark (also Sharon Williams)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10844a,70993d17686a711f,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10844a,public From: "Sharon" <sharonwill1@netzero.net> Subject: What's the fuss concluded! Date: 1999/02/13 Message-ID: <01be562d$acc289a0$7a521004@sharonwi> X-Deja-AN: 443926066 Organization: Wolfe Internet Access, L.L.C Newsgroups: amiga.general