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- From: bsieker@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Bernd Sieker)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- In-Reply-To: mikey@scinter.aftac.gov's message of 20 Mar 1996 04:34:16 GMT
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:05:34 GMT
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- In article <1826.6652T1402T214@scinter.aftac.gov> mikey@scinter.aftac.gov (Michael M Brockman) writes:
-
- >
- > GAMES MACHINE = High Speed Animation, Low CPU Loading (thanks to chipset),
- > Pre-emptive Multitasking, and an Efficient Operating System
- > to tie it all together.
- >
- > Full Fledge Computer = High Speed Animation, Low CPU Loading, Pre-emptive
- > Multitasking, and an Efficient Operating System to tie it
- > all together.
-
- You rarely need high speed animation on a normal Computer. Only for
- very few, very specialised visualising problems. Most of them cannot
- be done in real time anyway due to computation speed constraints, and
- then it is easier to record them to tape or similar medium. A high
- video resolution and high refresh rates are much more important.
-
- For a game machine, on the other hand, high speed animation is
- essential, but a low resolution and 50 or 60Hz refresh rates are
- acceptable.
-
- >
- > Funny how that works. The things you need for a good games machine are the same
- > things you needin a "real" computer. Games are harder to program than business
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > software. And the Amiga is still the best games machine around.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Is that so?
-
- Then where is Descent for Amiga? where is Duke Nukem 3D? Not that _I_
- miss them but I play very little anyway.
-
- And even if it were so, following your argumentation the Amiga were
- also the best "real computer" around.
-
- >
- > --
- > />
- > /> Michael M Brockman, mikey@scinter.AFTAC.GOV
- > />
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