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- From: fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Juergen "Rally" Fischer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga vs. PC
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 03:13:22 GMT
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- John Scheermeijer (scheermeijer.john.wj@bhp.com.au) wrote:
-
- : >>display synchronization,
- : >
- : >Every SVGA chip on the market can give you a vertical blanking
- : >interrupt, but most PC OSs don't use it. Of course, they never really
- : >think in multimedia terms there.
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- PC = amazing fast cpu renders flickering animation ;)
- makes some games look ugly.
-
- : technology for flexible and more personal use? What I had in mind was
- : continuously variable play back speed from the storage media (continuosly
- : variable raster scan rates).
- ?? single step VCR ?
-
- : Fast and slow motion film already has countless applications. It would
- : seem to me that Amigas and existing analogue video equipment could also
- : be adapted to do some pretty useful things at the personal level.
-
- I'd already be happy if my VCR wouldn't need 2 seconds for switching
- from "play" to "reverse". imho the AKAI drive could do more, but software
- is crap, letting drive make operations that are not useful in that case.
-
- it does a little bit reverse after stop (what is ok for assembly) but
- seems to also do this if I wanna go reverse :(
-
- : Any thoughts?
-
- : John Scheermeijer
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