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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
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- Date: 31 Mar 1996 18:29:55 GMT
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- Fabio Bizzetti (bizzetti@mbox.vol.it) wrote:
-
- : Dave Haynie said that SVGA chips have a better videoram->RGB bandwidth than
- : AGA and also AAA, that means better static WorkBench screens.
-
- Sure, svga high res screens with a 68000 cpu would be useless.
-
- : What does it have to do with all the other Video applications?
-
- Video applications should be secondary, AT is selling computers that are
- supposed to be able to do more.
-
- : And, I add: once you can display a 31Khz/72Hz 1280*1024 screen, will you
- : continue to ask more from it? Will you be able to make a dynamic use of it?
-
- With a PPC cpu you would probably get better performance than a 2 color
- ntsc screen with AGA.
-
- : But you dont know what we're talking about of course, nor about what Dave
- : Haynie was talking about, still adding that he can be wrong in the fields
- : where he is not (practically) experienced: realtime video applications.
- : Although he doesn't talk when he doesn't know about a thing, unlike you.
-
- : The Amiga is not only WorkBench.
-
- Yes, but the number of people that buy amigas for video applications is
- not as large as those who buy them for general use. If you are into video
- you are generally looking at the high end anyway.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
-
-