Reflections - AMIGA or PC?

Text: ALEX RAIDER / FLASH
Graphics: MYSTERY / FLASH
COPYRIGHT 1997


         AMIGA or PC?


  Well, it will try to make your own
view ... It's a pity that I did not go
on ENLIGHT'96, for tongue-tie people just surprised (that's me 
on the "film" about ENLIGHT).


      To begin with, that the house I have no
Amiga, no Pisi, although I'm fairly close
acquainted with this side and on the platform: Amiga
I watched my friends and I am familiar with pisey versatile - I 
programmed it (Assembler), and collected and sold.


     Let's start perhaps with the most simple.
Before me is the price of the company where I work, and we have 
almost one of the most rates in Novosibirsk. Let's say Mom

gave me 900 bucks and I want to buy a computer ...

    The first case - I
bought a Pentium 100. Y
I was left with 33
bucks. Alas, that
play toys
I need another 170
bucks for them
I'll have to buy
most dermovenkuyu
SB-PRO-compatible
sound card and 8u
speed CD-ROM
(The cheapest).
In addition, the need to spend another 46
bucks
additional 8
megabytes of
so that in total have 16
megabytes, because I want
to windows-95 does not
brakes and went all the programs. True,
now I have a 14''monitor, because without
PC monitor buying pointless, because with
conventional TV if they wanted to PC
work does not. Only I do not need
reminded that there are de video,
giving the video to the TV. Such
cards are 150 - 200 bucks! So, I
happened next: to have the home gaming PC, need to spend no 
less than 1000 bucks! But as a result I have not the top

perfection, but rather the usual stump-100,
herovenky sound and typical VGA.Chtob closer in quality to the 
sound card is required Amiga GUS (150 bucks). 

    Okay, now I'll throw pussy and buy
ammi. Let's see what happens ...

    Naked girlfriend cost me 550
tanks. We'll have to buy those 640 MB screws
I put on the pussy and the same CD
ROM, yes prikuplyu-ka 4 Mb Memory ... So,
after purchase, I still had 40bakov!

    Especially for the protocol explained: ammi
has a video output for TV / video recorder and RGB output for 
monitor, but about built-in sound I keep silent about it, did 
not understand probably just a fool.


    Having dealt with the price and what we have for
Data is money to deal with the REAL
price at the Amigo and pussy. Referred to me for money
a computer with pentium-100 course, not the lowest. It is clear 
that assembling a computer own hands, you can throw 150-300

bucks. Thus, very minimal, in
what you can do PC-gaming is 700,800 dollars. However, the 
price 550 bucks on Ammie 1200 is not the real price of this 
machine. The fact that at that price you are willing

sell it to us in scoop, but really something in the
this price there are very minimal
200 bucks "cheat." Such a steep price
occurs in the first place because of lack of
competition, and secondly because of the possible resale of 
cars, because I believe that the original wrapping is the Poles 
who bought Amiga in Germany at a price of 300-350

dollars (and maybe even cheaper). By the way,
that's what keeps me from buying Amigo, I just do not want to 
put 200-250 bucks pocket perekupschikov.Dlya me this money.


      Now let's talk on "upgrade".
When I watched "a movie" about Enlight'96, then
noticed a very gorgeous scene: at the moment
time when a group of green pisishnikov
interviewed, the most talkative of them
said the key phrase: "All of our lives -
continuous upgrade! "that I overwhelmingly enjoyed it. The fact 
is that many people say something like" Here's a look at the PC 
- it develops, say I am now able to take such a fee, and a year 
later when you are more perfect, I change it to a new one! .

Alas! So hopeless to argue that goes
process does not improve, and
only "dogonku" that has long been
exist on other platforms, I regularly read pisishnye 
publication and chuckled, when pisishniki applauded "the active 
invasion of multimedia." Bedolagi! But even if they knew that 
all of what is called multimedia, is essentially a conventional 
capabilities Amiga! About the fact that this is elementary 
"pumping money" I just keep quiet! Want an example? I take the 
magazine over 92y year and look at the price of PC ... Oh! I 
advertised a wheelbarrow 386 is "only" for 3100 bucks (The 
minimum that could find). Suppose that someone once bought ethno

creation (I'm one year ago I left
shovels "experts" and worked on the Spectrum). Well, given what 
is now 486 board with us in Novosibirsk goes to 25 bucks (386 
for 10 tanks) calculate how much money is spent on the upgrade! 
Turns around pieces bucks. And that's not all ... I understand 
that Bill Kalitkin of small and soft very rich man! Probably

Microsoft working on the two hundredth penkahpro and they all 
do not care. Tomorrow, with the advent 500 Mhz pentium-MMX, 
they write, say, vents-97 in BASIC interpreter, and

it appears that your stumps are already outdated, it's time
move on DEC-ALPHA and should have
At least 256 MB of "RAM." And again, rush to the user nakupat 
memory and "powerful" processors will rustle bucks, little 
people and easier to buy pentiumnye fee of 15 tanks - Here is 
what I understand! it's actually an upgrade! And the funny 
thing-presmeshnoe that because the way it is, for good reason 
intel came up with MMX. When they begin to ethno rivet, 
programmers will write software and OSes for MMX, and those 
with normal pentium just a bummer. 'd Better save up your money 
for an upgrade! 

    Well, what Amiga? Of course, such
trends exist here, but somehow it does not
so badly. Naturally, people in the past
time, guided by powerful akseli68060, but what works for 
"native" 1200 and does not think like a stall, to declare

of memory and, moreover, has been working
a multi-decade!

      One day I looked like my friend
works with the Amiga, when thanks to the magnificent amigovskoy 
OSes, he also listened to a multi-channel muse, connects via a 
modem and at the same time there is something drawing, when I 
saw CAD, instalyaschiysya literally from the two floppies and 
then immediately worked and worked on individual amizhke the 
same rate as in nehily stump - I realized my future will be 
connected It is with Amiga!


     In principle, all of the above
enough to make the right choice.
You can certainly write a lot of things and about
what motorolovsky assembler much
more flexible and sleeker Intel's 80X86, despite the fact that 
there is a P-mode can nehilenko Laba, you can compare sizes 
software and OSes (which is generally incomparable), we can say 
that amigovsky Software supposedly hard to get (although when I

Speccy appeared there were only about 5-6
cassettes of programs at turbo speed, ie
only about 100 programs - now they have
6000), we can even say that
for pisishny software will be planted, but the essence is