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- On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Terry Mundy wrote:
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- > What if this was NewTek's idea in the first place, designed to force us Amiga users to
- > the PC platform. It's not hard for me to believe that such an idea (conspirecy) ever
- > existed.
- >
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- I doubt NewTek planned LW 4.1 to be slower on the Amiga. I would guess
- that NewTek probably was not too enthusiatic about releasing 4.0 for the
- Amiga simply because it was a dying platform and is way behind in speed
- comparisions to all otehr LW platforms. Don;t even mention the 060 to me.
- It;s slower than a P90 and LW can not esily be compiled to take advantage
- of the 060 chip..due to the lack of comiler support in the Amiga
- commpunity..perhaps someone will develope a 060 compiler to meet the
- demand..NewTek could have taken the easy way out and just update LW Amiga
- to 3.9 (a hypothetical LW with 4.0 features except for the plugin
- architecture)...I have a feeling it was Allen and Stuart who pushed hard
- for the Amiga LW...It isnot NewTeks fault that LW renders slower..it is
- the programers fault..and i doubt Allen and Stuart would release a slower
- LW if it could be avoided..So thank all your lucky stars it is
- finally out for our dino, the Amiga.
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- Adam Chrystie LightWave 3D Animator
- Cinema/Video Major, Senior
- University Of California at Santa Cruz
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