kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth) (09/09/86)
Get real you guys. For $1600, less than the price of an imported PClone you got a machine faster than an AT, with fancy color better than EGA, DMA everything, durable high density 3 1/2" disks, 68000 linear-address-space processor, multitasking OS with installable device drivers, built-in RAM disk, excellent software libraries. They provide you with what you want(?), a PC for free in software, and another one in hardware for under $1K, and now you wanna bitch? You can't put your mouse on top of the sidecar and your desk is too small? So the Amiga is worthless and they obviously screwed you and you are mad as hell? Give us all a break. Seriously, although having the sidecar on top would be neat, it is not essential. I sort of liked the Transformer. It fit inside. I also like having my Amiga this year instead of waiting for next year. Bring on the C64 emulator. Bring on the CPM emulator. Bring on Transformer II. Do it all in software. Software fits inside. I am affiliated with Amiga only to the extent that I own one and approve in general with their development priorities.
jec@iuvax.UUCP (09/16/86)
I totally agree-- I didn't buy a PC Clone (actually, I sold my IBM
to buy an Amiga!), I bought a high-tech hacker's machine.
I do have a question on the sidecar, though. Is it going to be
possible to use the sidecar AND other peripherals like the CSA Turbo Amiga
or Byte-by-Byte PAL? It looks like it should be okay since, surprise, all
of these were designed to come out of the SIDE of the Amiga and not be put
on top. Ditto for memory boards. The question is what is being passed
though, and is the BUS timing going to be a problem?
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