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From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham)
Subject: Re: Mac Sales Vs Amiga?
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Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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Date: Mon, 03 Jun 91 04:49:38 GMT
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In article <1991Jun1.091600.28806@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:

>   Rumors are bullshit -- I want FACTS.  If A-Max III takes half as
>long to reach the market as A-Max II+, it never will reach the market.


The person I heard it from was a dealer who heard it directly from ReadySoft
on the phone.  But I hear ya.....


>Besides, what kind of color capabilities are you talking about?  
>ReadySoft cannot use any of the third-party graphics boards, because 
>they all lack the resolution and flicker like all hell.  They also
>cannot use the Amiga's built-in color capabilities, because they 
>are next to non-existant compared to the 8/24-bit color of the LC.


Well, I'm not the kind of person who would know.  I heard (again) however
that you would be able to buy a board for color.  How many colors or at
what resolutions I don't know.  If you're interested, I could probably 
find out.


>   The point is, if A-Max III does support color, it will very likely 
>either support very limited color (16 colors out of a small palette),
>require a third-party graphics board like the HAM-E that flickers
>like hell, or require a very expensive graphics board like the A2410.
>All of this would make a genuine color MAC very desirable in price
>and quality of display.


It may be expensive, but there is also an issue of desk space.  You could
have an Amiga, IBM, Mac, and a Unix workstation all on one desk.  You could
use anyone and everyone's software.

A Mac LC is very sloooow under system 7.0.

Also, I'm pretty sure that 2/3 of Mac sales are either Classics or LCs.
Its not like Amax needs to emulate like an si or fx.  Its just nice that
if you need to run some rare or available software that you can probably
do it one way or another on an Amiga.



                                        NCW


