Destiny rules!
In a message of 04-May-99 Dirk Harlaar wrote:
> So you don't agree with me at all. What I was saying is that one user
> can not dictate the next user what to buy and why to upgrade.
Well, Dirk, I know what your are saying. I'm just interpreting it in a bit
of a provocative way :) But why can't I dictate what another user should
use? On the PC platform it is being dictated all the time. Every new
upgrade of Windows requires upgrading of the hardware for the OS to run
properly. Every new game requires upgrading of the hardware for the game
to run properly. Every new application or upgrade of an application
requires upgrading of Windows. We are being dictated all the time, so why
not dictate what another user should use of computer equipment on this
platform too?
> I don't know how much money the next Amiga user has to upgrade his/her
> system, and what I was saying was that nobody can tell the next person
> that his processor belongs in a museum.
Why not? Well, if you come driving at 20 mph in a old Ford T, why shouldn't
I then be allowed to to tell you that it really belongs in a museum?
Naturally, "Gosh, wow, a Ford T - great car", but that certainly doesn't
make it suited to drive on the motorway. It might not even be able to use
the gasoline currently in use. A Ford T belongs in a museum and we should
certainly not lower the speed limit on the motorway to 30 mph and alter the
gasoline of today to suit a old Ford T.
An Amiga 500, "Gosh, wow, a A500 - still remember when I had such a
computer", but it is definitely obsolete. It belongs in a museum. End of
discussion. The same applies in my opinion to all 000, 010, 020 and 030
based Amigas (perhaps also 040 based Amigas) as well as AGA-only Amigas.
If people like to drive in a Ford T of use an A1200 it is certainly their
choice, and as far as I am concerned they should do it. But they shouldn't
bother me with their equipment being out-of-date and lacking certain
essentials.
> Sure, you can't expect new software to run as smoothly on a 68000 as on
> a 68060, but no-one expects that. They ask some valid questions on this
> list if some software option would maybe become available in the future
> that will make some options faster on their processor, and get as answer
> mails from people telling them they should stop whining and buy a 32 Mb
> graphics card (no-one has offered me the money for it though), or stop
> crying and buy a 060 processor etc.
Why shouldn't we tell them that. It is most often the only possible
solution if they want a speed increase. You say that noone expects
software to run as smoothly on a old machine as on newer ones. I don't
find that to be true. Most often I interpret people statements to mean
that they like their old 020/AGA to exhibit the same behaviour as an
060/GFX-card exhibits.
> For a lot of people this is not an option, since they just don't have
> the money.
I ask again. Are Amiga users the poor computer users of the world?
A 020/AGA compares (if we are nice) to a 386 - I know nobody using such a
machine today. Even 486's aren't used by anybody I know (except myself who
only uses it for WordPerfect 5.1 for which it is well-suited). All the PC
users I know are currently using some monster huge Pentium/K6/MMX/whatnot
processor with huge mega monster graphics cards and huge mega monster sound
cards. Why are the 020/AGA users still using such a obsolete computer?
I have to admit that it often annoys me a lot when some 020/AGA user
complains about something being slow on his computer and/or asks for some
speed improvements. To be honest, if the sucker can't upgrade his own
equipment to something reflecting the time we live in a bit more than a
020/AGA does, then he should shut up and be quite until he has upgraded.
I think the way the Amiga base is antiquated because the users aren't
upgrading their machines is putting to many contraints on the development
of software for this platform. Software developers need to develop software
that will run on 020/AGA machines if they want to earn a living. And this
naturally makes our programs suck compared to their PC equivalents. If our
user base would upgrade their equipment to something reflecting today, then
the developers could develop programs that had higher speed and graphics
requirements than currently and that would give us all a lot better overall
performance.
Such statements like "can't Voyager cache the images as IFF because that
would make viewing faster on slower machines" annoys me a lot. Shut up,
sucker, and upgrade your machine! Why should Olli or any other developer
cater for such users when they don't even bother taking the first step
themselves by upgrading their obsolute equipment?
Why are the general Amiga user so poor?
Uffe Holst
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