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- From: sloppy@mack.rt66.com (John Millington)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker Case: two choices.
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 16:26:15 -0600
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- Anders Karlsson (flex@kuai.se) wrote:
- : In a message of 05 Apr 96 Touliatos Panagiotis wrote to :
- : TP> yeahh in 4-8 colors run very smooth, how
- : TP> about 256 colors? ,even an old Cirrus Logic 5422 card runs windows and
- : TP> os/2 at 800x600x256 faster than any 4000 at 640x512x256 .We need a real
- : TP> upgrade ,the walker doesn't offer this yet, maybe if they put in it a
- : TP> 24-bit graphics card and a better proceccor ??? who knows?
-
- : Face it! The Walker is LOW-END. You won't get a low end machine with
- : gfx-card and 060/PPC-processor.
-
- They could get some generic SVGA hardware that can do hires and 24-bit
- color and blit ten times faster than AGA, and it would probably cost about
- the same or maybe even LESS than AGA. The perceived need for backwards
- compatability is destroying Amiga hardware technology.
-
- Long live CyberGraphX!
-
- Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,
- John Millington
-