AMIGA RULEZ, OR PUBLICITY
HEALTHY LIFESTYLES.
(C) Bogdan Prytkov
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Hi and thanks to all who
looked at this page. In
continuation of our conversation about
Amigo, I decided to go back a little and talk on the subject,
Maybe some of the boring
and therefore uninteresting, but for some, maybe even very
necessary, especially if they face
there is a problem of choice "of his
computer. To help sort out the complex, and sometimes deceptive
computer the world, I decided that the first part of his
article devoted to the argument why so hard for a long time
Amiga goes on so many different
rumors and conducted many violent disputes.
So let us now, together, reasoning solely
common sense and logic, try to place all
points over the "I", and find out
because of what all this "fuss"
around the Amiga. I suggest to you
consideration of three versions:
Version One: all the hype
artificially inspired by secret agents of the firms classified
reklamnokommercheskimi "Amiga Technologies", in order to
advertise their products and introducing confusion into the
blossoming world of "PC". Version could be
super-genius, if not
2-wa small "but" - in the first place
production company has never needed in advertising, among
buyers-PC users, but on the contrary has always been
super-difitsitnoy that in general is unnatural for the
developed capitalist market. Secondly, firm is always
represented, a small but very strong
a group of talented scientists, for
which, like all true
scientists, purely scientific value
own technological development, has always prevailed over
commercial success, why,
Of course, the user always
won.
Version two: some
prosstakov, rashly napokupali
Amigo, and then bitterly regretted
This, and the agreement, arranged
unhealthy hype around the Amiga
in order to quickly and more expensive
shake off your Amiga prostofifilyam others, in the light of
cheap advertising.
Version undoubtedly developed
a man whose brain, according to
its size and intelligence, could
to successfully compete with the planet Solaris from a novel by
S. Lem. Yes The only trouble is - it's painful to extract a
sneaky sellers kakayato incredibly strong - everyone is waiting
for a more convenient time for sale and did not want
give up their burden with
so that the proceeds from the sale money to buy at last
Great PC. Even when the Amiga
in a state of agony, in
for nearly a year, and then
prices are not dropping - that's because until
what greed can bring.
Version of the third - the last: All
"Amizhniki" - a very narrow-minded and
perhaps not entirely sane people
and apparently can not or do not want to
understand the beauty of working with
IBM-compatible computers.
Here, I could lead, in
large quantities of famous quotations in the computer world,
people are in favor of the Amiga,
but not wanting to completely annoying,
So probably already rather tired reader, this is not going to,
especially since I have no information about statements on this
Bill Gates, revered by many users PC for the living God (the
prophet to call it can not because, on the fulfillment of
prophecy in his last 5 years, something difficult, leaving some
too for some reason do not want to notice).
And now, remembering that
that it is better to see once than
hear a hundred times - the rule that I strictly used before to
make up their personal opinion based on
compared to the Amiga and PC, I decided
to share with you my impressions from what he saw.
The first thing I was very impressed, being already heard
about great possibilities of the Amiga in the field of graphics
- is its sound. No to everyone else's, rich, vibrant, strong,
with a rather small volume, subordinates
anything and everything to its own rhythm, the sound was
so voluminous that streoeffekt was comparable, except that
only with those cool audio, where the sensor is fixed
on the clothing of man and then adjusts the entire system,
including an equalizer,
balance and even mechanical
rotation of the columns in the direction of the listener. At
the same time as the amp used ordinary Domestic stereomagnitofon
Class 2.
With graphics matter was simple - Amiga with it did not work
popukivaya heroically, but simply
played, hurling, and indulging in the most complicated in
structure and colorful, three-dimensional graphics, and
perverting the above them all available for
perception of human vision,
ways.
Repeatedly watching the Amiga at
work with various programs,
I somehow did not notice it
the numerous glitches, such
typical PC, and even the notion of
true multi-tasking, we just watching as
user at any time
time and in any program,
doing such things with files, utilities and even the
configuration of the machine, with apprehension and mistrust
begin to squint at slot drive, knowing that if the case is not
over familiar for PC freeze or reset,
it may end the release
thence clubs acrid smoke. Also, much surprised me a lot
number of class system and
game programs, the names of the creators of which for some
reason I have been completely unfamiliar, because of greater
simplicity and convenience programming for the Amiga, by
compared to the same PC. After the games
on the Amiga, games on the PC seem to be
me some kind of clumsy, quadratic, and miserable.
Now, in the course of my,
no hidden advertising in
Amiga computer use was
would be very appropriate to remember that
in general, nation-wide focus on IBM-compatible
computers was launched in
of an order, even in communist times, when, first, a good trick
important official in an unconditional manner could determine
direction in the scientific, commercial
or export-import policy
state, and secondly, the
computer for use at home Nobody had not yet
thought.
If you recall the history of IBM-compatible computers,
then the memory comes to children's
leapfrog game where everybody is trying to
jump over each other, all
are hurrying, and no one behind
that does not respond, and for all errors
pays the poor user. All
ideology of development was originally
was purely extensive nature, where the main objective was to
desire to suppress rival mass and deshiviznoy, and then, having
mastered the server-networking technology, to try to gain a
foothold. The results of this policy are obvious: the
difficulties and problems which in time were hesitant at
developments due to haste and irresponsibility, now packed, and
formed impenetrable stone walls began to narrow and without
further narrow passage development of x86-x family of
processors, and no frantic and desperate attempts to build CPU
power will not help to avoid deadlock. But the frenzy has not
yet ended, and until new and energetic company, acting in the
old tradition, called the poor users, only yesterday they had
bought a computer, "to did not have tomorrow to climb on the
wall "(excerpt from the advertising world famous firm Dell),
today, throw it and buy a new course for higher price, and
given the fact that the software for it will be written after
2-3 years just when you will be forced
and sell it to buy more
higher. But such firma IBM quietly and without fanfare
emerged from the struggle for leadership
in computers, one of the main proroditelnits which it once was,
and that to this day continue to be called in her honor, now
skoreshilas with Motorola and Apple, and in blizhayzhem future
is going to convert all your servers
Processor Alpfa.
But back to our 'sheep'
- Add to the above, yet
and the fact that the Amiga can be connected
to any TV set and calmly
work, saving chance,
the order of $ 250. Recall and of good program ZX-stag,
amizhnikami written in the form of an outstretched hand of
friendship, especially for the owners of the
Spectrum-compatible machines, and pursue the same purpose as my
article. If well this whole my inspiration
rubbish is not made for you
absolutely no experience, then
the only thing I dare you
ask for it by talking with
someone from the steep amizhnikov,
that way for sure, will deliver
You pleasure, so as to talk and argue they can do
apparently user-friendly interface
Amiga - a contagious thing. Yes and no
prevent the switch from regular topic
stolen PC-Schnick whose essence consists in the best case in
long and uncertain transfer
all the necessary nuances and installations needed for the
installation of one or another program, or at worst a
meaningless discussion of hundreds of megahertz megabytes or
contained in meat dishes from the computer PC.
Well, if you're lucky enough
see the Amiga for serious work, you will become apparent reason
that anger and rage, which is not
may contain luminaries PC, when
it comes to the Amiga, and probably
Do you then let someone else associated with the Amiga
Dendi or Sega, but may be
as I start hard to do
abbreviation PC emphasis solely on the first syllable.
Well that's about all. In conclusion, I wish to express their
willingness to argue with arguments on this issue on pages our
magazine with any opponent, but in the next issue I try to tell
the latest news from the world's Amiga, which had accumulated
in abundance, and which, fortunately, gives fans of the Amiga
is every reason to look forward to, as ever, great optimism.
See you in the next issue.
