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- From: lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 8 Apr 1996 20:13:54 GMT
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- Byran Lee (byran.lee@svis.org) wrote:
- : 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
-
- : rc> David Corn wrote:
-
-
- : >> >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> >
-
- : 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...
-
- : rc> ewellington@alpha1.curtin.edu.au
-
- : 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.
-
- If you took the time to read and comprehend his post
- you would find that he is not talking about emulation
- at all.
- However, the reason why the P6 might seem slow in this
- incident might be the fact that it is has problems
- executing 16-bit code without degrading performance.
- Now, who's the looser?
- Cheers...
-