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- From: wnear@epix.net (Bill Near)
- 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?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 20:13:51 GMT
- Organization: epix.net
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- References: <3134A895.193E@sound.net> <DnosLq.y4@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> <4hfaub$o8i@nyx.cs.du.edu>
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- On 4 Mar 1996 10:57:31 -0700, Karl Thomas articulated:
- <> solar@dozy.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (Solar) writes:
- <>
- <> >In article <3134A895.193E@sound.net>, you write:
- <>
- <> >Who needs SVGA? I am doing fine with my workbench. I can choose:
- <> >660x440 pixel, 60 Hz, 256 color (DBLNTSC with Overscan),
- <> >660x550 pixel, 50 Hz, 256000 color (DBLPAL with Overscan and the HackAGA-
- <> > program from AmiNet that allows for
- <> > HAM8-Workbench),
- <> >800x600 pixel, 72 Hz, 256000 color (SUPER72 interlaced and HackAGA).
- <> >I do not need any grafic card for this. If I need more gfx power, I add
- <> >one and go for 1600x1280 pixels at true color. duh.
- <>
- <> Do you really want to compare an interlaced graphics mode to SVGA? HAM
- <> is so slow its basically unusable. Why is it that anything that the Amiga
- <> doesn't have that every modern platform has, the Amiga doesn't need? One
- <> minute Amiga users say "We don't need fast processors" and the next minute
- <> you're bragging about Vapor-PowerAmiga.
-
- Sorta like clone owners, eh? "We don't need preemptive
- multitasking", "Multimedia? What's that?", "Games are for
- toy computers!", "Custom chips to take the load off of the
- CPU? Yeah, whatever." Do any of these sound familiar?
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