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- Subject: Re: There is *NO* Amiga....STOP IT NOW
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- From: teler@mangal.cs.huji.ac.il (Eyal Teler)
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 10:40:05 GMT
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- In article <313950E5.240E1014@eciad.bc.ca>, John Nelson <jnelson@eciad.bc.ca> writes:
- |> Amigasloth
- |> from when the amigados was known for being the slowest
- |> OS around. 86-?, when no game was writen using amigados, the STers were
- |> laughing (I remember many flame wars of old, me on the amiga's side).
- |> SVGA was just coming out and we were losing the argument of best quality
- |> graphics big time, then the 3000 came out with now real graphics
- |> improvments besides built in flicker fixer and the war was over.
-
- I agree that at some point the Amiga lost its advantage in graphics, but
- your time scale is a little wrong. SVGA wasn't coming out in 86, because
- VGA wasn't yet around. In fact, in late 86 I was selling C128s to people,
- because they had better graphics (and certainly sound) than PCs.
-
- Personally, I find Amiga OS 2.0 and higher to be one of the best looking
- OSs around, and the Amiga libraries provide some calls which users of other
- OSs can only dream of (I'm a PC owner now, and work on UNIX and OS/2, and
- I still miss some Amiga features).
-
- ET
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