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From: pockets@d2.com (Sean Cunningham)
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In-Reply-To: <9408082024.AA01052@ capitol.com> from "Paul Davies" at Aug 8, 94 04:24:56 pm
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:) Computer Graphics World covers
:) had two covers done by Ron Thorton from Babylon-5 and have
:) been pretty fair in thier coverage of the Amiga.
Well, I'm not too sure how fair their coverage has really been. I'm not sure
which is worse, no coverage or inacurate coverage. Most every Amiga-related
feature article that I've read in CGW since about 1988-89 has been full of
technical and feature-related errors. Even when dealing with the most basic
Amiga features, capabilities and what is available for the platform.
What's also annoying is that for every feature article that praises the
platforms capabilities or a particular piece of code in the same breath they
condemn it. Without fail there will _always_ be a big "BUT" when praising
the Amiga.
But I've never seen them take this schizo attitude with other platforms. I've
never seen them once say something like, "the new Macintosh is great but is
still much slower than other platforms sporting the same processor specs," or
"the new Indy is cool, but the case is made from Hasbro-quality plastic and
be ready for several motherboard swaps if you intend to use one with a modem
(power-cycling a device hooked to the serial port is bad news)." Never.