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- From: finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 12:30:04 GMT
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- >On Tue, 02 Apr 1996 10:22:42 -0800, robert loss
- ><rlossrd@cc.curtin.edu.au> wrote:
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- >>I have an A1200 with 6 Megs and a 68030 at 40MHz. I picked it up for
- >>$1200 Australian with monitor and two external floppies. I run
- >>1280x512x256 colours on my workbench... Yes this resolution exists. I'm
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- >I'm aware it does. I just want to know how badly it ruins your eyes.
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- Just wear sunglasses, that cuts out most of the flicker.
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- >>running ShapeShifter, which is a shareware Macintosh emulator, I
- >>downloaded from Aminet (Yes.. Net software..) and have 100% compatible
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- >I'm familiar with it; it's a $40 application, isn't it, once
- >registered?
-
- yep. but you don't get all that much extra functionality out of it when you
- register. Plus, I'd like to see you emulate a Mac at the same speed on your
- PC for the same amount of money.
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- >>software emulated Macintosh. I have tried Adobe Photoshop 3.0 on it and
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- >100% compatible is not correct (ie - run RamDoubler), but it does run
- >old 0x0 apps very well.
-
- yeah, but pretty damn close.
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- >>it runs fine. (albeit only with small pictures because of my RAM). I use
- >>Pentium P6's at Uni with all the fruit, with Windows 95, on 17inch, 64
- >>bit wide display cards, and I must say that they are powerful. Windows 95
- >>is HUGE. But I prefer to do all my work on the Amiga because it still
- >>runs faster than those Pentiums. For example, I created an animation in
- >>Corel Draw 6.0's 3d renderer, and rendered a postage stamp video of it.
- >>Probably about 200x200. After 12 hours it still had not completed (100
- >>frames). On Imagine 3.0 (which I got of the cover of a magazine for $10
- >>Aussy) I rendered a 780x512x256 colour 50 frame animation and it took 38
- >>hours. Now with all the P6's power I would have figured it would be
- >>quicker, but then again it was inside Windows 95. The ONLY gripe I have
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- >Somehow I find this difficult to believe.
-
- Somehow I don't. Have you tried an Amiga in the last two years David?
- They are very powerful machines. The PC is a powerful bit of _hardware_,
- but the M$ OSs make it a total peice of crap. I have little arguement with
- a PC running Linux, or OS/2, but anything M$ is crap.
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- Finn Higgins
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