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- Path: nntp.teleport.com!sschaem
- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 16:42:34 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
- Message-ID: <4kolhq$r5l@nadine.teleport.com>
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- Finn Higgins (finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz) wrote:
- : 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).
-
- Nothing Win95 and 32bit app cant handle... Win95 can actually do better:)
-
- : 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.
-
- Ouch! thats maybe >300 time slower then on my P100 running a 24bit
- desktop and backdrop... Even so redrawing the desktop with a 24bit
- .bmp backdrop is instantaneous, I prefere plain a colored one.
-
- The desktop and multitasking under win95 is fine... the real problem
- I have with win95 is its lack of a nice usable shell and dos command.
-
- Stephan
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