Imminent death of Amiga predicted ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In article , Les_Jenkins@lppl.mi.org (Les Jenkins) says: >I am truely hopeful that CBM comes out with something truely astounding in >the near future, but everyone who seems to be in a position to know seems >to think nothing amazingly new is due anytime soon. Worse yet, more and >more developers are considering moving to the Clone and Mac markets. Let me >tell you after my years of harping on how great the Amiga is to the locals >around here, it would be hard to live down a switch to a MS-DOS machine and >it would shock many of my friends who knew how die-hard Amiga I was once. >Even Amiga Fanatics have to face reality though. Sigh. Why is it, every time I subscribe to this group again, there is a slew of articles like this, about how the Amiga has fallen behind and will never catch up with the awesome Clones and Macintoshes and should therefore be traded in tonight, tomorrow at the latest? Considered the A500 lately? $399 gets you a machine where, for equivalent IBM-compatible performance, you need to spend well over a thousand dollars for a 286 clone with all the add-ons. Throw in a cheap hard drive for the 500 and you're in business. As for no advancements... if DOS 2.04 and the 68030-equipped A3000 aren't advancements, well, I don't know what is. And we all know very well that the Crew That Never Rests is working hard on a new graphics chipset that is guaranteed to be at least the equal of VGA. Sounds good to me. Sheesh. People, it is NOT a lack of advancement on the part of Commodore that is hurting Amiga development. It is the PERCEPTION of a lack of advancement! The party line is now "we're way behind and will never catch up", developers hear that, and decide to abandon one of the fastest growing platforms in the world with an installed base of 3 million fanatically loyal users. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy! If you look at the facts, rather than the perceptions, you'll see that Amiga is doing just fine, thanks. The only way our machine could be killed is if people keep believing it will be... [Your blood pressure just went up.] Mark Sachs IS: mbs110@psuvm.psu.edu DISCLAIMER: Penn State cares about my money, not my opinions. "All my father wanted to do was make a toaster you could really set the darkness on -- and you perverted his work into those horrible machines!"