Message-ID: <374@terak.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 12:27:05 EST
Article-I.D.: terak.374
Posted: Thu Feb 14 12:27:05 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 17-Feb-85 06:48:14 EST
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Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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[color=blue]> I originally bought the c64 based on it's sound capabilities and[/color]
[color=blue]> the promise of a multi SID keyboard( they never produced the[/color]
[color=blue]> keyboard though ). This AMY chip though looks like it is 10 times[/color]
[color=blue]> better than the SID.[/color]
Don't feel disappointed. If you had waited to get an Atari system with
an AMY chip, one of two things would probably happen:
a) it may never materialize at all (like that multi SID keyboard),
and you would have waited for nothing; or
b) by the time it materializes, some other company will already be
touting the new super-duper sound chip that they're working on
that's 10 times better than AMY, so you'd end up waiting for that.
"State-of-the-art" is a fleeting condition. If you feel that you must
always have state-of-the-art equipment, you must be prepared to scrap
all of it each year as the state-of-the-art marches on.
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Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug