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- From: claevius@firefly.prairienet.org (Brent Busby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Phase-5 Vaporware; Maybe Warp Engine Better?
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 05:16:55 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Bernd Sieker (bsieker@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE) wrote:
-
- : Phase 5 is not directly responsible for the software, but you should
- : admit that CyberGraphX is the largest step towards compatible (with
- : older graphics) RTG that has been done so far, and it runs very well
- : on the majority of available graphics boards. The CyberGraphX library
- : and board driver updates are free and come out quite frequently.
-
- : Please show me where Picasso Software is "more integrated into
- : existing Amiga OS and applications" than CyberGraphX!
-
- For one thing, while CyberVision (the card, not the CyberGraphX software)
- does make a much more sane try at 24-bit Intuition than Retina did (it
- works with Intuition instead of trying to replace it with some emulation
- nonsense of its own), still, a great deal of the apps like AdPro that
- have been made by companies that are no longer serving us have been
- provided with Picasso specific drivers. In fact, almost every major
- Amiga application of the last several years has a Picasso specific
- driver available to support it, but CyberVision is something relatively
- new. That's not a bad thing of course; we're not trying to shun new
- things. It's just that since CBM's liquidation, a lot of companies
- that used to provide good third party support have left us, and they're
- no longer around to write CyberVision drivers for their applications.
- CyberGraphX tries to work around this, and it's probably the best shot
- at true RTG that's ever been done yet, but there's still something
- about having a driver that's optimized for 24-bit display on *your*
- video card...
-
- I'm not trying to say CyberVision sucks or anything...
-
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