English Amiga Board


Go Back   English Amiga Board > Main > Retrogaming General Discussion

 
 
Thread Tools
Old 10 April 2002, 01:30   #1
Fissuras
Old Luny
 
Fissuras's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Brazil
Age: 54
Posts: 574
Which is better? An Amiga, or a Sinclair ZX81?

I have rediscovered this funny text... maybe some of you have never read it before.

Here is the link to the original document:

http://www.hh.schule.de/hhs/mjaap/zx81_vs_amiga.htm


Which is better? An Amiga, or a Sinclair ZX81?
In response to your question, we've performed a detailed series of experiments, and here are our results:
(1) The Doorstop Test
The ZX81 was a clear winner early on, with it's thin sloping corner excellent for jamming under doors and stopping them open. The Amiga with it's much wider profile, but periously thin plastic, was simply pushed aside by any door with mass greater than the door on a birdcage.
(2) The Hamburger Test
Using the two computers as a place to temporarily store a hamburger while our test programmer used a real machine, like a Silicon Graphics Indy, again resulted in a clear win for the ZX81, with its wipe-clean keyboard. The Amiga soon had huge amounts of sauce and fat stuck between its keys, but a nice herb garden sprouted after a corrobative experiment with an Indian takeaway.
(3) The Old Joke Test
Placing both computers inside glass cases with signs saying "Break glass in case of emergency" produced a laugh rate of 0.2LU for the ZX81 and 0.01LU for the Amiga. A control experiment using an abacus received 0.7 on the laugh scale. Again, a ZX win, though the Amiga was unfortunate in that we did not plan an experiment measuring involuntary vomiting.
(4) The Programming Test
Having our test programmer write programs for the two machines gave a laugh rate of 0.95LU for the ZX81 (1K RAM) and 0.99LU for the Amiga (where 1.0 would indicate convulsions and death). The sole Amiga win in our experiments. After continuing the experiment, and switching to the psychotic screaming scale of measurement, the Amiga still held a commanding lead.
(5) The Masonic Handshake Test
Offering the computers in handshakes to see if they struck some secret signal gave null results in all countries in the world except for one, The United Kingdom. In the UK, while the Amiga was still ignored, the ZX81 resulted in much sucking of teeth, offers of three places on QUANGOs, and a life membership of Mensa UK. A ZX win almost by default.
(6) The Boomerang Test
Throwing the computers into the air with a spinning motion again showed clear ZX81 superiority, as it flew in a wide, smooth, circle, right back to our test programmer. The Amiga flew about ten feet, and landed in some kangaroo dung. This did result in improved growth for the aforementioned herb garden however.
Fissuras is offline  
Old 02 July 2004, 10:45   #2
oldpx
 
Posts: n/a
Hehe old thread, but funny, so *BUMP*
 
Old 03 July 2004, 20:23   #3
Fissuras
Old Luny
 
Fissuras's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Brazil
Age: 54
Posts: 574
And I thought I was the only one to like it
Fissuras is offline  
Old 03 July 2004, 21:25   #4
Dr. Dude
Senior Member
 
Dr. Dude's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: On Ami World
Posts: 500
Er....like it? Amiga that gets trown away in kangaroo shit
used as a door stop

What kind of madnis is this?
Dr. Dude is offline  
Old 09 July 2004, 12:47   #5
Eny-
R3tr0 G4m3r
 
Eny-'s Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Lisbon - Portugal
Age: 44
Posts: 327
lol...
Eny- is offline  
 


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
For Sale or p/x Boxed ZX80 & ZX81. UK only Dagger MarketPlace 0 22 October 2010 17:13
New DIY ZX81 Kit. Charlie Retrogaming General Discussion 6 05 December 2008 10:36
For those Sinclair lovers.... Anubis Nostalgia & memories 1 30 June 2008 22:24
La Puerta de Sinclair / Sinclair's Gate Shoonay Retrogaming General Discussion 0 09 November 2007 16:09
swap my zx81 for an a1200 ppc thingy? Interceptor Swapshop 1 12 September 2007 23:53

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT +2. The time now is 19:03.

Top

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Page generated in 0.07090 seconds with 13 queries