23 Apr
2002
23 Apr
'02
7:13 a.m.
At 02:43 PM 4/23/2002 -0400, Jeff Hellige wrote:
I find it interesting that the gaming market is one of
the main defining markets for current PC hardware...the very market that PC users used to
scorn. I've always thought it was stigma that was unfairly applied to the Amiga, even
if it was better at it than the PC's of the same time period.
Markets change. Today's gamers simply didn't own PCs ten years ago.
They couldn't afford them. There were gamers back then, but they
were not mom-and-pop. They were business people who primarily used
computers for business, and sometimes used them for games.
The demand for high-speed game graphics made mincemeat of the
old-guard computer graphics market, too.
- John