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In article <899.6672T874T560@login.eunet.no>, patrick.hanevold@login.eunet.no (Patrick Hanevold) writes:
> Do you think yor Pentium gets close to a real Amiga?
> Well maby to a A500, but why the heck should anyone want to have an A500?
> OK, its cool to have in a window, but todays Amiga's aren even close
> to a stock A500. Time you PC dudes realise that.
> 
> BTW. This is no flame or anything.
> 

How can you even think that you can compare a top-line amiga
(A4000/060 + gfx board + 32Mb) to a PC in the same price-range ???
(PPro/200 + VRam4Mb gfx + 32Mb) 
 
A P133 is several (200 or more) times faster then a A500 (68000/7Mhz)
_ALL_ Graphics cards for the pc have blitters built in, most sound cards are
just crushing the amiga sound chips. (32-channel 16-bit 44Khz mixing ?)
 
If you want to say "PC's are not that good in emulating amiga's" you're 100% right,
but "A Pentium does not get close to a real Amiga" is ofcourse bullshit.
(Pentium is a CPU, and i assume you meant to compare Amiga's with Pentium-based PC's)
 
But fact is that PC's are gaining more and more on amiga's. (Hell, even lightwave was ported to the pc.) And it's a matter of time that PC's -will- be able to emulate amiga.
(UAE on a Pentium Pro / 250Mhz, wich makes use of GUS and GFX-card extensions must be
enough to emulate a A1200) It's time you amiga dudes realize that.

But hey, most modern amiga's are capable of -emulating- an XT, or even a 80386 at
reasonable speed. It's only logical that todays hardware can emulate other hardware
from the past. (Both amiga -> pc and pc -> amiga) But it's essential to the amiga that
AT will prevent the competition (Apple, Pc's, whatever.) that they will emulate
modern amiga's.

This is not a flame or something, it's not even a pc-commercial. I've had a Amiga since
the release of KS1.2 (Good ol' A500)  and a A1200 and A4000/40/20Mb after that. I 
programmed every bit of it, and it was wonderful. I sold both last year to get myself 
a P133/32Mb. (No regrets yet.)

Fact is: -PC operating systems suck. 
         -Amiga hardware sucks and amiga OS lacks things (But works great).

It's a matter of opinion, and i chose for the speed. It's a free world. Chose for 
yourself.
 
Have a nice day,
 
		Sander