| From: | Daniel Thornton |
| Date: | 17 Aug 2001 at 00:12:43 |
| Subject: | Re: Upgrading Amiga |
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 00:07:22 +0000, Nicholaus Darley-Jones said:
> Unless you are buying an <133Mhz PC you won't find one for less than £50.
I'm not. I'm doing it on credit, and getting a nice and speedy one.
> Why do you *have* to use Word? You can read files written in Word and with
> a decent printer/word processing package you can produce some spectacular
> documents with an Amiga.
It's not just word I need though; like I say, I need access to loads of
websites that don't work on Amiga and most likely never will.
> The PC market is moving soo fast that anything you use now will be outdated
> in 6 months and the software will require you to upgrade your PC.
True, but you don't /have/ to upgrade that often. I certainly don't intend
to.
> It's never the same thing tho. :-/ The fun with having an actual Amiga is
> knowing that you can improve it and customise it. Using a PC to emulate
> one is just like trying to emulate a Spectrum/C64 on an Amiga, it's just
> not the same.
I still regularly do spectrum things through emulation, and enjoy it just
as much.
> Come to the WOA-se show and have a look at some of the systems there. There
> will hopefully be two systems that might just catch your eye (i.e. mine and
> Sams) running graphics cards, Soundblaters cards, ethernet cards, and even
> TV cards! Anyone who thinks that an Amiga is just a 256 colour games
> machine is in for a shock!
I kno what the Amiga is capable of; it's great. But it doesn't have enough
support to justify me upgrading/replacing mine right now. Maybe later.
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