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From: david@ecrhub.UUCP (David M. Haynes)
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Subject: Re: Amiga -- is the screen readable?
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 08:27:29 EDT
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> > Question for anyone who has seen a live Amiga.  Is the character display
> > really that bad?  Or was the picture on page 90 just a bad photograph?-- 
> > 
> 
	[Keith Nemitz writes..]

>  I've seen it, and it is a standard IBM-PC resolution display, with the option
> of about a billion colors for things to be.

Actually you have the choice of 60 or 80 characters/line, so sometimes it
is a standard (colour) IBM-PC dosplay.

 >					     Mac's screen is much finer and
> clearer to read in my opinion.

Uhmmm. Let's be careful here. The mac comes with a nice small B/W screen 
of about 8 inches diagonally. The Amiga has a much larger screen (IBM PC
monitor size) so, remember that the display is spread over a larger area
and is, therefore, grainier.

>				 Face it, very, very few applications really
> NEED color.  Games, some drafting maybe.  Still if you want color, amiga is
> the best PC for the money.

The sound quality is nothing to sneeze at either. BTW. maybe its not clear
but the Amiga will write video and sound as well as read it. So computer
animation and movies anyone?

Opinion time:

I freely admit that I prefer the Macintosh to the Amiga as both products
stand now simply because there is a much larger amount of software available
for the mac. If the people at Amiga (Commodore) get their act
together and produce software for the types of tasks I tend to do, well
then I'll look at the Amiga more seriously. Til then, its nice, it could be
a lot of fun to play with, its a hell of a machine to develop for, but its
not very useful to the end user.
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