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- Amiga did not die. They were out of bussiness for a while. Now is on the
- hands of the Germans and they're aware of the speed on the old machines.
- Soon they will answer back to this crescendo of pentium. Remember they
- haven't had the time to really compete.they just started. Take away the
- speed and compare and you'll stay with the amiga where all you need is a
- little patiente. The warp engine is available at 80mz. but wait a little
- like I'm doing and you'll see.
- Pericles
- At 03:01 PM 1/11/96 -0500, you wrote:
- >
- >I'm a Lightwave user who has been using v3.5 on an Amiga for quite some
- >time and have registered for the v4.0 upgrade (this has yet to
- >surface I understand).
- >
- >I have been working at getting a couple of animation projects up and
- >running over the past year or two and it still looks like one of them
- >may eventuate. The problem is that back when I began budgetting all of
- >this, the setup I intended to use consisted of whacking a PAR board
- >with TBC into my A4000. Unfortunately things have changed with the
- >slowdown of the Amiga and it seems that the move to the PC platform may
- >be unavoidable.
- >
- >My hesitation at making the move is: 1) I have used Amigas for 5 years
- >and have built up a software base I can use blindfolded. If I move to
- >PC I have to start from scratch. 2) The *cost* of buying a new platform
- >and software base. 3) If I set up an adjacent Pentium, the moving of
- >files between systems (assuming issue no.1 is solved by running both in
- >parallel).
- >
- >My questions are related to the setting up of a PC system.
- >(Please note that I am in Australia and therefore use a PAL
- >system).
- >
- >* There is talk of Win32, NT, Win95 and Win3.11... what do I need to run
- >LW 4.0, assuming I have a P120 or the like? Or rather, what is the
- >*best*?
- >
- >* What is the equivalent PC RAM requirement to match 16meg RAM on an
- >Amiga (ie. what I call minimum)?
- >
- >* Is it possible to live without Arexx? I live and breathe it with the
- >likes of ImageFX.
- >
- >* Is there the equivalent of ImageFX and MultiFrame batch image
- >processors?
- >
- >* Is the PAR on the PC as good as the Amiga version, which I have used?
- >
- >* Now there is talk of the PVR which I haven't seen, what is the
- >difference? Is there are DPS home page or mailing list perhaps?
- >
- >* It would be much cheaper to just stick an Amiga PAR into my machine,
- >should I still consider it? (I don't see any plug-ins for the Amiga
- >version of LW turning up, though).
- >
- >If you had to spend the *absolute* minimum to set up a
- >PC with LW and a PAR + TBC, what would the system consist of? (Say
- >given a budget of US$5000 ie.AUS$7000 - note: in Australia hardware and
- >software is a bit more expensive).
- >
- >
- > Thanks for your time
- >
- > Peter Ryan (pjryan@zeta.org.au)
- > Sydney, Australia
- >
- >
- >
- Pericles E. Mejia
- perime@aacr.us.net
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