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- From: robert loss <rlossrd@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 10:22:42 -0800
- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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- David Corn wrote:
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-
- > >My Amiga is doing 1280x1024x256 colors, or I can go to 800x600 in 16.7 milion
- > >colors. These are non-interlace modes.. Take out your graphics card in
- > >your ibm and tell me how great your resoultion and color is. :)
- >
- > :) You have a graphics card?
- >
-
- I have an A1200 with 6 Megs and a 68030 at 40MHz. I picked it up for
- $1200 Australian with monitor and two external floppies. I run
- 1280x512x256 colours on my workbench... Yes this resolution exists. I'm
- running ShapeShifter, which is a shareware Macintosh emulator, I
- downloaded from Aminet (Yes.. Net software..) and have 100% compatible
- software emulated Macintosh. I have tried Adobe Photoshop 3.0 on it and
- it runs fine. (albeit only with small pictures because of my RAM). I use
- Pentium P6's at Uni with all the fruit, with Windows 95, on 17inch, 64
- bit wide display cards, and I must say that they are powerful. Windows 95
- is HUGE. But I prefer to do all my work on the Amiga because it still
- runs faster than those Pentiums. For example, I created an animation in
- Corel Draw 6.0's 3d renderer, and rendered a postage stamp video of it.
- Probably about 200x200. After 12 hours it still had not completed (100
- frames). On Imagine 3.0 (which I got of the cover of a magazine for $10
- Aussy) I rendered a 780x512x256 colour 50 frame animation and it took 38
- hours. Now with all the P6's power I would have figured it would be
- quicker, but then again it was inside Windows 95. The ONLY gripe I have
- with Amiga's is they don't come standard with High Density floppies. Very
- annoying when I can't afford to buy a HD drive. But thems the breaks...
-
- ewellington@alpha1.curtin.edu.au
-