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- From: byran.lee@svis.org (Byran Lee)
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- Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 13:18:00 -0500
- Organization: SVIS 304-592-2682 800-SOFT-VAL
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Message-ID: <90.40604.1052@svis.org>
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- rc> Message-ID: <31617072.1B28@cc.curtin.edu.au>
- rc> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- rc> comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- rc> Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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- rc> David Corn wrote:
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- >> >My Amiga is doing 1280x1024x256 colors, or I can go to 800x600 in 16.7
- rc> milion
- >> >colors. These are non-interlace modes.. Take out your graphics card in
- >> >your ibm and tell me how great your resoultion and color is. :)
- rc> >
- >> :) You have a graphics card?
- rc> >
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- rc> I have an A1200 with 6 Megs and a 68030 at 40MHz. I picked it up for
- rc> $1200 Australian with monitor and two external floppies. I run
- rc> 1280x512x256 colours on my workbench... Yes this resolution exists. I'm
- rc> running ShapeShifter, which is a shareware Macintosh emulator, I
- rc> downloaded from Aminet (Yes.. Net software..) and have 100% compatible
- rc> software emulated Macintosh. I have tried Adobe Photoshop 3.0 on it and
- rc> it runs fine. (albeit only with small pictures because of my RAM). I use
- rc> Pentium P6's at Uni with all the fruit, with Windows 95, on 17inch, 64
- rc> bit wide display cards, and I must say that they are powerful. Windows 95
- rc> is HUGE. But I prefer to do all my work on the Amiga because it still
- rc> runs faster than those Pentiums. For example, I created an animation in
- rc> Corel Draw 6.0's 3d renderer, and rendered a postage stamp video of it.
- rc> Probably about 200x200. After 12 hours it still had not completed (100
- rc> frames). On Imagine 3.0 (which I got of the cover of a magazine for $10
- rc> Aussy) I rendered a 780x512x256 colour 50 frame animation and it took 38
- rc> hours. Now with all the P6's power I would have figured it would be
- rc> quicker, but then again it was inside Windows 95. The ONLY gripe I have
- rc> with Amiga's is they don't come standard with High Density floppies. Very
- rc> annoying when I can't afford to buy a HD drive. But thems the breaks...
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- rc> ewellington@alpha1.curtin.edu.au
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- You *ACTUALLY* expect anyone to believe this bullshit, especially
- anyone who own both an Amiga and a PC? Get real, loser. Software
- emulation of hardware is a joke. It always has been. The fact you
- can't do much with the emulator because of your ram is proof of
- that.
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