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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: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 06:58:00 GMT
-
- >On 8 Apr 1996 15:09:15 GMT, c948374@hald.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Ingemann
- >Lambertsen) wrote:
-
- >>Imagine how an Amiga user feels when Window gives you "General application
- >>fault" (or something like that) from Word, Wordperfect or Turbo Pascal. Add
-
- >Run Win95.
-
- We are talking about '95. My opion is that anyone who gets Crap95 is
- DOWNGRADING from DOS! I haven't used 95 for ages, it is so unstable and
- just plain WRONG. I use DOS now if I have to use a PC. I could just about
- put up with 3.1 without feeling suicidal, but not '95.
-
- >>that to the feeling of not being able to multitask these programmes (so you
- >>can't write a programme and the documentation at the same time). And then
- >>there is the thing about formatting disks...
-
- >Run Win95.
-
- Win95? Multitask? Not as well as:
- CP/M with a small patch
- UNIX
- The Amiga OS v2.0
-
- All of those were out five years ago.
-
- >Disks? What are those? :)
-
- The things you said Win95 came on 24 of in a different message.
-
- >>I've never had such constrains on my Amiga...
-
- >Sure - you just never had any software to -do- anything. :)
-
- How come I'm doing these at once then:
- Typing this mesage.
- Running Worms win Sleep mode
- Rendering a 200 frame 640x320 widescreen animation.
- Converting the 24 bit frames from the rendering package to 256 colours and
- incorperating them into an anim program.
-
- All as seperate programs, with no lock-ups (unlike crap95).
-
- >>So you still think the Amiga doesn't have SVGA? Won't surprice me at all.
-
- >Not standard in a usable speed on a current machine, no. Sure, as an
- >expensive add-on. On the most common Amiga sold, do most Amigas have
- >this SVGA card? What's the common denominator that's written for in
- >the Amiga commercial market? Please recall that I'm in the USA,
- >where, for the most part, there IS no commercial Amiga market.
-
- The standard written for in Amiga software is whatever the user has
- selected. Most apps will scale to a new screen size, and will use any more
- colours you give them. Install a new monitor driver, and all prefs using
- programs (almost all these days) will adopt it.
-
- The Amiga can handle SVGA res (800x600), at a reasonable speed. As I have
- said before, what is the use of a fast gfx card, if your OS updates slower
- than the card does. It can take five seconds to redraw a 95 screen with a
- 256 colour BMP in the background on a P100. That is pretty shocking, and a
- lot slower than the slowest Amiga mode.
-
- Finn Higgins
-
-