Buzz #13 12 февраля 1998

Amiga     PC

Amiga or PC - Amiga or PC. Where to break the deadlock?

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(C) D-Man


   Today we publish an article Melted'a Snow with a few 
comments Syrus'a. Such articles are now found great set, so if 
you are already tired of endless discussions about different 
platforms, and you have already firmly decided to choose, then 
I think you should not read it. But if you still do not know 
what car to give a preference, please read - maybe this article 
will help you. 

   So cuts in the article refer to the following: MS - Melted
Snow, and SS - none other, as Syrus.

(C) MELTED SNOW 1998
(C) COMMENTS BY SYRUS / EI 1998


              AMIGA or PC. Where to break the deadlock?

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MS> The article could appear as early as 1995 in the magazine 
ZX-Review, but while editing all sought to convince that PC 
Lushe, spread than AMIGA, that even the son of the Sinclair 
says the success of RS.S that time much has changed, changed 
wording vzlyad ZX-REVIEW (they even released a few issues of 
the journal of the Amiga), and soon after she went to the 
editorial floor. And what about the users of the Spectrum. They 
are again left with a choice: where to go - toward the PC or 
Amiga. Well look at some aspects of this issue. SS> Well, well, 
let's ... MS> So, the first assumption. Sinklerist is a poor 
man, on Spekrume did anything extraordinary, though versed in 
ASM'e and high-level languages, dreams of a little fortune on a 
new platform. SS> Dreams, dreams ...

MS> Then he should buy a PC, but rather to gather in parts.
SS> No, do not ...
MS> For example, the case for the PC costs 200 rubles, screw on 
1Gb500 thousand, 8Mb of RAM - 150 thousand, video card - 200 
thousand, FDD 3,5''120 thousand, Claudia - 80 th, nurse 586 of 
500 Thousands of mediocre monitor 14'', from 1 million 
rub.Itogo user receives 586 complex only 2750000 rubles.

SS> Well, Well, all this is certainly correct, but there are 
few but, so ... 

    BUT n1> SOFT for pC, usually on the flop does not fit,

           so someone got the idea to write it on a more 
capacious 

           media, wherewith in our age of multimedia is
           are CD-ROMs, so that it should be a quick prick
           drink (otherwise you will not be able to dip into

           the enchanting world of pC-MULTIMEDIA). The price of 
this unit for            depends on the speed. For example, 8X 
is about 400 p. 

    BUT n2> What would not cut the ear enchanting sounds of 
PC-SPEAKER'a, 

           You will have to acquire a sound card.

           Of course, the selection thereof, depends on what 
you own            but wish to receive. Want to hear music in 
the resistance            driving the whole range of noise 
tones, buy SB. 

           Want to throw a lot of money for what they should 
not be - 

           buy AWE. Want to get a sound that is comparable to 
AMIGA 

           (And about this question), then ask for Gravis 
UltraSound. 

           GUS will cost you $ 120.

    BUT n3> If you want everything to work OK (And perhaps 
whether 

           it is generally on the pC? ) You will need a minimum 
of 16 MB. 

           16 MB SIMM is somewhere $ 40.

  As a result, adding nnn bucks for more or less decent 
processor (Although the unbridled growth rate of SOFT'a:) makes 
an indecent processor is under development), we get about 6-7 
and more tr

MS> and pay money will not come immediately, but the extent of 
their accumulation. Then you can buy more memory, SS> See above.

MS> 3D-accelerator, a printer, modem, etc. You can earn on
What a set of texts for a familiar company.
SS> In mS WORD'e: (or where?;).
MS> For fans of games such complex will be a boon,
SS> ... akin to a bomb in a gift bag;).
MS> but MS do not become famous lover podaydet because all your 
effects     Effects in ASM'e at best see friends.

SS> Nuuu ... Yes, if with all this going on iNLAYT: (.
MS> The rest of this will not give a damn!
SS> The other is who? Secretary-typists?
MS> Now consider this question from the Amiga
SS> Well, just look at ...
MS> with the condition that the user is a middle, and Spekrume
He is known as the very best programmer, and this glory, he 
does not want to lose. Immediately buy the Amiga! SS> ... and 
you immediately become something of a TBL. MS> For the price it 
would be: AMIGA 1200 - 425 $ SS> $ 370!

MS> accelerator on the 50mg - $ 190,
SS> I wonder what (1230.40 or 60)? Well consider that

    Blizzard is 1240.
MS> screw 1Gb -149 $, memory 8Mb-$ 35. Monitor the truth bites
    $ 370.
SS> Nuuu ... COMMODORE'vsky monitor costs about $ 100. The truth
RES'ah more than 256 lines of vertical resolution begins to 
noticeably flicker. MS> You can use the old truth of SPECCY, 
but I personally have not seen a large spread of color 
monitors, SS> Razuy eyes!

MS> and the TV is easy to damage eyesight.

  Total Amiga will cost you in all (ha!): 1169 $ (7,014,000 
USD).. SS> Total, AMIGA will cost you somewhere in 5.5 TR (This 
is from M68040). MS> But for you all will go on a visit to look 
at this miracle machine with awesome sound and graphics. Your 
creations in ASMe can be written on the videotape and to let in 
the country. If you're not lamer, you will come to you 
recognition, glory and honor. All who knows how to draw or 
write music, I recommend buying the Amiga, as on the PC 
graphics editors worse than on the Spectrum, SS> Nuuu ... I 
would not categorically declared ... MS> The quality of its 
music and not worth talking about. SS> See above ...

MS> Most Mouzon, that you may have heard on the PC pumped 
(lossy) with Amiga. SS> I wonder where they have it (money) 
managed to lose? MS> But gamers can upset your Amiga will not 
work. SS> ... since> 8000 AMIGA-GAMES for all PACKMAN'y, a not 
DOOM'y, WORMS'y, WarCraft'y, Mortal Kombat'y and StarDust'y!

MS> Not only is housing A1200 clearly rulez (probably a la 
Spectrum) SS> Rather, the body, reports to the concept of 
HOME-COMPUTER'a. In that are commercially available body types 
TOWER ... MS> and difficulties with the acquisition novya,

SS> only for the difficult of the human race.
MS> so still quite forget about 3D-Game
SS> ... and about BreathLess, Gloom de Luxe, etc
MS> for which clocked in the first place.
SS>??? For which the processor performance on the 1 st place!
Performance AMIGA with Blizzard 1240/50mhz hardly below P133
a, at least, Doom where there seems to be functioning normally.
MS> A to play only a flat game quickly get bored.
SS> And you play ...
MS> Y Amiga (y Mas'a too) there is one drawback
compared with MS.
SS> Well, well, let's see ...
MS> This lack of significant programs for the business person 
(financial software programs matemeticheskogo modeling, DBMS). 
SS> Nuuu ... No words! Take it, though, would any AMIGA GUIDE, 
there, like, this is not Mr. something is written. But already 
about Mac'a, then here it is doubly NO WORDS! I'm here in my 
hand ad page, where inscribed that PowerMas - the perfect 
computer for teaching, business, home, COMMUNICATIONS and 
something else there. To him there some kind of application are 
attached (ClarisWorks, HyperCard Player, Acrobat Reader, 
MacLink Plus, At Ease, The Apple Internet Connection Kit, Apple 
Telecom (including Apple Fax, Apple Phone, Apple Address Book, 
and there still any GAMES'y, etc. ..), then all sorts of 
pictures drawn by ... Krrrasota! MS> On the PC they are 
constantly improving. SS> Did you try something from the "more 
perfect" and feel the difference;) MS> Someone may say, all 
this we can run the emulator on Amiga. What to start a course 
you can, but here you work clearly will not rush -

SS> Thus do so and not to rush?
MS> fall asleep at the monitor.
SS> 1. Run under the emulator no one will, his entire

       this is enough;

    2. And no one working there would not be;

    3. And do not fall asleep for AMIGA'oy!
MS> Who has a lot of bucks and a talent
SS> A talent-why?
MS> it may be advisable to buy A / BOX (POWER AMIGA)
SS> According to the Council to take would be very difficult,
even if you are the son Bill'a Gates'a, because the A / BOX 
like in the series so far did not leave.

MS> which can be run not only a Spectrum emulator and the Mac, 
but also to emulate at least a dozen PENTIUM'ov II. SS> Nuuu 
... Has brought you, boy ... MS> reader of this article can say 
that some guy you do not go there gone.

SS> That's it!
MS> So far, only one ranting. Where is the promised yield
out of the impasse? Well here it is:
SS> Well, well, interesting ...
MS> Spectrum at the PC market looks like poor Cinderella
among his cheeky sisters. But YOU, USER can change it
position. Spectrum for 16 years. During this time he almost
has not changed. So he should stay. But give it
new life can be such gadgets as:
SS> Is he so and stayed?
MS> GENERAL SOUND (and this is a prof. Card), HDD, FDD 3,5'',
additional memory. On the way a graphics card with cool 
graphics. SS> This is what?

MS> Certainly would not hurt even the accelerator (as on the 
Amiga) to increase the CPU clock. SS>!!! P & W O O D B & T E L 
L H O S T I! MS> You do not lose the compatibility between the 
computer, as speed of the main board will be 3,5 mg

SS> Mg what?
MS> (which is not the monsters such as Scorpion, the pros and
ATM). If the flow of software in the next two years will remain 
at the level of 1997, SS> Rather, a trickle.

MS> with any certainty it will be possible to say that you do 
not have Spectrum throw and fly with disabilities under the 
name PC and AMIGA. SS> Nuuu ... pC-He thought so, and ...


    AMIGA - disabled? Hmm ... Original!
MS> is better to have contributed to the development of the 
Spectrum USER!