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ÿFrom having been an Amiga-magazine only, Oepir Risti now steps onto the Intel-based platforms, and I can't help asking myself if this is a step upwards or downwards. The steps go down, my dark half say; it's an improvement, my brighter half suggests. It is a matter of definition, S.Duvan says. I'm not much for defining, though; as far as the whole of me is concerned, it is not a mistake to release Oepir Risti on PC, nor is it a self-given fact. (David DID kill Goliath, you know...)
	The primary thing I always liked with my Amiga (ANY Amiga, that is) is that you are free to do whatever you want. Here am I, the system says, now do what you want. From time to time, I sit down in front of a PC. Here am I, the system says, you can do THIS, THIS and THIS. Sure, those THIS cover most of your needs, and you may still choose between them, but what kind of freedom is it when selection is free BUT someone (something, maybe; Intel machines are rather inanimate) limit what you can choose? 'A limited freedom is the best freedom', one of those wanna-be philosophers said some four hundred years ago. I believe he died as a poor man.
	Another thing is the attitude of the people involved in the PC circus. To judge by the paper magazine of National Swedish Post Administration Office (or whatever it is called), it is impossible to pay the Internet a visit with an Amiga: "Pirates in front of the court have as big a chance as Amiga users have on the Internet." Another leading PC magazine tells us that "the Amiga is now dead and will remain so forever, if something that always have been dead now can be called dead, that is." When IBM's OS	/2 was released (I do not really know the year, but it must have been around 1993), we were told that "for the first time in computer history, YOU can do more than one thing AT THE SAME TIME.". Nice, even though I actually have enjoyed full multitasking abilities since the I bought my A500 in the year 1986.
	"So, you have an Amiga. What clock frequency, if I may ask?", they say.
"Fourteen MHz at present", you say, already knowing their answer.
"Well, pal, welcome to the 20th century! I run on 75 at home, and God shall know that is slow!"
	(Yeah, it is, isn't it? According to the PC HQ of the States, no Doom-like game can run on 33 MHz or below. The first Doom-routine (and,yes, we are talking a full-size clone here) for the Commodore 64 was released in 1994, on a computer that is clocked to about ONE MHz.)
"Really, it isn't the same thing with yours and mine clock frequency. They differ quite a lot, actually.", you try to understand.
"Ah, gimme a break!", they say and leave.
	Not much of an argument, right? Sure, I can't win with my fourteen MHz, but I sure as hell can give them a match they will never forget.
"Multitasking", they say (if they haven't left already), "why, I can do that on Windows 3.11 at home. It works great."
"Yeah, it does, doesn't it. Well, show me, format a disk in A: and write a few lines in Word at the same time. Go on."
	But do they try, do they understand? No, no and yet no. The Amiga is sentenced to be extremely good in secrecy. I can take their statement that the PC is better. I can't take their saying that the Amiga is nothing.

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