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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 00:51:55 GMT
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- On Tue, 02 Apr 1996 10:22:42 -0800, robert loss
- <rlossrd@cc.curtin.edu.au> wrote:
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- >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
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- I'm aware it does. I just want to know how badly it ruins your eyes.
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- >running ShapeShifter, which is a shareware Macintosh emulator, I
- >downloaded from Aminet (Yes.. Net software..) and have 100% compatible
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- I'm familiar with it; it's a $40 application, isn't it, once
- registered?
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- >software emulated Macintosh. I have tried Adobe Photoshop 3.0 on it and
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- 100% compatible is not correct (ie - run RamDoubler), but it does run
- old 0x0 apps very well.
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- >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
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- Somehow I find this difficult to believe.
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