Upgrade or die!
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                           By Edward

This  month I went and bought two games both which needed 030 processors,
(Xtreme  and  Breathless)  and  I was amazed at the quality of them, they
were  superb!.   But  the  Average  A1200  owner doesn't even have a Hard
drive!   yet  a  030 CPU so how do games publishers expect to do a decent
game on the A1200 if there still restricted to a 020?.

I  know  a  lot of Amiga owners that have a AGA machine which is just the
stock  machine  not  even  a  external  drive!.  They expect to have high
quality amazing software that is blindly fast and is in 1 billion colours
on  screen,  texture  mapped  with  CD-quality  sound and network ability
running  of  a  2meg  14mhz  1.3mips  machine with no Hard drive from one
floppy disk!.  Maybe 3 years ago, when the Amiga was the premier platform
for  games yeah, but now most games on the PC require a Pentium and 8 meg
of ram to work and EVERYONE has a Hard drive on the PC!.

Ok  so  you  don't  need  high  specs  like that to run doom on the Amiga
because  it is efficient with ram, CPU and disk space, but at least a 030
should be considered as a essential piece of hardware with some more ram.
If  this  happened  then  we  would see more games like Breathless on the
Amiga  and  better software that takes advantage of the CPU.  But most of
you  lamers  out  there  say,  'no  I'm spending that money on a PC (1000
pounds),  I can then run doom etc'.  This really gets on my Tits, if your
going  to spend 1000 pounds on a machine just to play doom when it can be
done for 180 quid (price of a 030) then you are wasting a lot of money of
a  piece  of  inefficient  piece  of hardware.  spend that 1000 pounds on
this:

        a) 540-1 Gig HardDrive (3.5 inch) (180 quid from Escom)
           This will give you more than enough space and you now
           start to use serious applications faster on a HardDrive

        b) 030/50MHZ- 2-4 meg ram (300 quid)
           Watch your Amiga Whizz!, all those games will be dirt fast
           and applications will be a joy to use, also multi-tasking
           will be wonderful

        c) CD-ROM quad speed 100-200 quid
           Depending on where you look you can get em cheap then you
           can use all the FMV stuff and all the AmiNet CD-roms 
           full of software.

        d) Modem (14400 90-130 quid) (optional)
           Make new friends on the BBS scene and go interneting	

        e) Monitor (optional) 300 quid
   
           You can use all the other AGA screen modes that you can't see
           on a normal TV screen and its better for your eyes.			

        TOTAL PRICE: (APPROX.) 1000 Pounds or cheaper

Yes  but  I  can  get  a Pentium which 4 faster than a 030, and the other
stuff  for  the  same  price,  including  win95.   Yes  but  you'll  need
realistically  16  meg+  ram to efficiently run stuff and have to upgrade
nearly  every  other month to stay on top.  With the Amiga the technology
will  last  you until and beyond 97 but by then you'll have a Power Amiga
won't you?  :)

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