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- jkrutz@meta.burner.com (Jamie Krutz) () wrote:
- > In article <199603070526.AAA07946@norden1.com> Tim Krego <tkrego@norden1.com> writes:
- > > I used to like the Amiga's ability to have individual screens for each
- > > program, but that is one of the reason it has died. With all the custom
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ridiculous statement...
- I still like it the way it always was and is. Windows does do almost the same with
- ALT-TAB. Lately I am trying this keys on my Amiga more and more ;-)
- The price of a Cybervision64 is not much more than a comparable PC S3 card.
-
- > > screens you were stuck with the display modes of the Amiga chipset. Add a
- > > highres graphics card and every program had to be re-written to support each
- > > card. When all those Amiga graphics cards were incompatible you had more
- > > problems.
- >
- > (debatable and dated digressions deleted)
- >
- > FYI CyberGraphX software runs on most of the cards so developers
- > only have to support its 16 and 24 bit extensions and their software will run
- > across multiple graphics cards. These cards are not chip-ram dependent.
- > You get a whole new set of display modes to choose from and combine on
- > different screens simultaneously. It's pretty slick.
-
- yeah, it is better than Windows, because the different programs can use their own
- resolutions. With Windows every program has to use the default res and color depth.
- FYI I can run LW on 1024x768 and run Modeler on 1600x1280 and play MPEGs on a 24
- bit 320x240 screen, while running PhotoShop on a Mac emulator on another screen.
- I don't need to switch and restart like in Windows.
-
- > LightWave animators using Amigas should check out CyberGraphX on
- > their choice of display card with programs like ImageFX2.1a, ProVector 3,
- > World Construction Set and Impact. Multiple dragable screens, multiple
- > color depths, multiple resolutions, all simultaneously.
- >
- > Has anyone tried the CyberGraphX plugins for LW 4? How well do they
- > work?
- I use the CyberGFX render screen plugin and it displays very fast, in fact
- much faster then on my P100 with Stealth64.
- Layout and Modeler works also great, except from the deliberately left out features
- like color wireframes, color image thumbnails and surface render previews.
- And it's a pity there is no good 060 compiler/optimizer available for speed sake.
- I hope that a recompile for the upcoming PowerPC boards will not be such a hassle
- for Allen and Stuart.
- All in all, I like my CyberAmiga(060,CV64,40Mb) more than my P100(Stealth64,32Mb).
-
- Erwin
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