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- From: draven@infi.net (Greg Morgan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: What the Amiga needs? pssst.... Dave Haynie please read....
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 07:04:53 GMT
- Organization: InfiNet
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- OK, yes I agree we need hardware that can produce 24-bit color
- resolution as standard, but there are also ther things I'd like to
- see, like built in 16-bit stereo sound, something that sounds as good
- as my 8-bit A2000 does, it's sad, but my A2000 sounds better than the
- new DX4-120 pc with 16-bit sound. Another thing that Amiga
- Technologies should consider is putting some kind of 3d-acceleration
- support, preferrably OpenGL-compatible 3d-acceleration, ON THE
- MOTHERBOARD for top-of-the-line systems. If you think this isn't
- possible, keep in mind the 3d graphics subsystem for the Nintendo
- Ultra 64 IS OpenGL compatible...... and the Playstation is damn
- close...
-
- We also need OS support for some type of integrated audio-video
- format, be it .avi, .mpg, .mov or whatever.
-
- Multiprocessor support is also something that should be considered.
- Windows NT has it, Copeland will have it, why can't AmigaDOS 4.0?
-
- If they want to keep up in the graphics market, then they need to be
- thinking things like this. I run a small computer graphics studio, and
- we're about to make the jump into an actual office instead of working
- over modem and telephone from everyone's home. I confronted myself
- with the choice of waiting on PowerPC-based Amigas, or going to the
- 'Industry Standard' and spending my entie computer budget on 3 SGI
- workstations. Right now we plan on 6 A4000T '060s and 1 Draco NLE, and
- the A4000Ts will be upgraded to PPC 604s as soon as they are
- available. Come on, Dr. Kittel. Don't make this a bad choice.
-
- -Jon K. Carroll
- President, Crescent Moon Productions
- draven@infi.net
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