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- From: astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why Amiga and why it is.
- Date: 3 Mar 1996 01:42:00 GMT
- Organization: NetSpace Online Systems
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- menno stormink (mennosto@zeelandnet.nl) said:
- >astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett) wrote:
-
- >(stuff deleted)
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- >>PK>> >7. Most games only run in 15 Khz mode because DBLNtsc is slow
- >>>AGA is slow, that`s right.Try Hi-Octane on a P75, and redefine SLOW !
-
- >>You really are an idiot. Hi-Octane, I assume, is a texture mapped racing
- >>game? Run WB in 800x600x256 colours on AGA - I dare you.
-
- >(have to agree here) you can't compare most amiga games to games like
- >Hi-octane, because of it's use of things like texure maping, to get
- >hi-octane to run slow on a P75 you probably have to run it in SVGA.
-
- Yes, the PC has the advantage with texture mapping - we scroll better.
-
- >>PK>> >8. Amiga games suck compared to the onse in the PC world
- >>>Wake me, if You have something new to say !
-
- >>Oh, great refutement. Have you played great PC/Mac games like Full
- >>Throttle, Duke Nukem 3D, Havoc, Descent, etc? Most Amiga games are shitty
- >>football management games.
-
- >The look and type of game don't mater to me, and to most people it
- >will be gameplay that matters, I am still playing Civilsation and
- >waiting for Civ 2, and I have fond memories of games like
- >Carrier-command and defender (I stopt after wave 400+).
- >Games which have tons of gamesplay not looks.
-
- Yes, but the PC has Civ, etc, and had them first. It *also* has the games we
- lack.. :(
-
- >>>Mention one (not Lightwave, please !) Dpaint ? PPaint ? Brilliance ?
-
- >>All mere hobbyist systems.
- >I see the makers of things like babilon 5 are mere hobbyist, that is
- >nice to know.
-
- I wasn't mentioning Lightwave - and the gfx folk for Babylon now use Raptor
- systems or Pentiums to render, not Amigas. The Amiga interface for Lightwave
- is still nicer than the PCs, though.
-
- The other systems though, aren't up to professional standards, from what I've
- used of them. Yes, they're very good for the market size, but they don't
- compare to what Mac users expect.
-
- >>>Photogenics ? TV Paint ? Xipaint ?
- >>>Do You know st about graphics programs ?
-
- >>Have you used Corel Draw or Photoshop? Evidently not.
-
- >I have.. I find Corol draw to bloated (how many Mb's does it use i
- >can't remember), on the other hand Photoshop is nice and small, and is
- >very powerfull aspecialy with Kai-powertools.
-
- Ignore the size - power users just use it as a tax write-off to buy a spanking
- new machine.. :) Check the features that those pros need.
-
- >I have never used Photogenics or Xipaint , but i have used TV-paint
- >Jr. on a A500 with Avideo framebuffer and 68030 25MHz turboboard no
- >CoPro and NO 32-bit fast-ram, and it was one of the fastest and most
- >powerful 24-bit paint programs i have seen (it handled 24-bit brushes
- >with transparency in olmost real time very impressive) can't do that
- >in photoshop on my dx2 .
-
- One day I must check out TVPaint - though I don't need it at all... I'm fine
- with a pen, but drawing on a computer seems very anti-intuitive still...
-
- Hey, this is possibly the first reply to one of my posts that *didn't* claim I
- was a PC-owning, goat-bonking slime.. :)
-
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