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- From: raftopou@stud.uni-frankfurt.de (Joerg Raftopoulos)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: HELP! Retina Z3/4MB
- Date: 13 Mar 96 18:39:11 +0100
- Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
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- SM> Joerg Raftopoulos (raftopou@stud.uni-frankfurt.de) wrote:
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- >> retina workbench emulation is crap. use cybergraphx on your system. it`
- >> faster, more reliable and you can drag screens.
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- SM> Except its not faster,
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- it`s just my impression. i`d be happy to see some benchmark results.
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- SM> and there are quite a few programs that write dire
- SM> to the screen bitmap, which the Retina software has a specific "continuou
- SM> update" mode for (ReSource being one such program for example).
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- SM> And, the Retina has an AVI player - that supports Radius Cinepak, and als
- SM> supports audio playback.
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- sorry. i`m not familiar with animation software. just one of those bozos who
- want to have a 256 color workbench and somewhat reasonable resolution and
- vertical scan rates.
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- i found some other software that won`t work with cybergraphx: quarterback
- 6.0 tries to open a system font and the system freezes. dpaint5`s zoom
- function won`t work, random pixels are set in the zoom window (not in the real
- picture) while mouse is moving. fill doesn`t work either. workbench 3.1`s icon
- editor doesn`t fill areas too. scanquix (epson scsi scanner driver) won`t
- refresh it`s output window correct after scrolling.
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- SM> The only REAL advatage of CyberGfx over the Retina emu is draggable scree
- SM> and not CHIP mem usage for screens.
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- i don`t know how to live without draggable screens hehehe. hope this makes my
- enthusiastic posting a little bit more understandable. cybergraphx is closer
- to "plug and play", retinaemu needs some finetuning but it`s more compatible.
- i think every retinaz3 user should try both and find out what serves
- his/her needs best.
-
- SM> Regards,
- SM> Stuart MacKinnon.
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- bye
- jr.
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- SOL LUCET OMNIBUS
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- Joerg Raftopoulos, Amiga User since 1987
- 3 x A1000, 1 x A500, 2 x A2000, 1 x A1200, 2 x A3000 Owner
- Student at J. W. Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, Sol III
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