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- From: hdoan@vworks.com (H Doan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: What is the purpose and role of the Amiga?
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 96 18:56:41 GMT
- Organization: Virtual Works
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- In article <31712861.5B32@primenet.com>, "Alexander W. Dorn" <awdorn@primenet.com> wrote:
-
- >
- >What place does the Amiga take? The Amiga is still the only low-cost
- > alternitive
- >to an industrial graphics machine. Sure, you say, Macs and PCs can do
- > graphics, but
- >these platforms do not lend themselves to hard-core graphics very well. While
- > their
- >programs are capable, they do not give the end user the full control over the
- > image,
- >the pallette, and the way the image can be processed. The Amiga, for better or
- > worse,
- >was grabbed early on by Computer Graphics Professionals, who wrote the
- > foundations
- >upon which today's Amiga Graphics programs are built, thus giving them a slight
- > edge
- >when it comes to producing and working with graphics.
- >
- What a bunch of crock.... Not anymore...
- I had the biggest laugh yesterday:
- I was just reading one of my old Amiga mags (Amiga Format November 1995 #page
- 93) and it reviewed a graphics acccelerater card compared to an Amiga 4000.. A
- 768 by 512 image took 6 MINUTES to do a Gaussian blur on a AGA 4000 running
- Photogenetics.. What a fucking joke... On my Powermac or Penitum 133, the same
- task takes 15 seconds.
-
- Sure,, the Amiga was cool back when with Lightave and the Toaster... But not
- anymore... From all my readings in 3D graphics journals.... everything is
- going to PeeeCees.. Hmmm, Why are all those old Amiga software vendors making
- PC products... Caligari, Newtek, Imagine.... Hmmmm
-
- Let see if my old Amiga 4000 can render in "REAL time with texture mapping." I
- think not.. What use to take 20 Amiga 2000 040s to create a scene in Babylon 5
- now takes one Pentium Pro.
-
- Speaking of graphics... I work with "hardcore" graphics all the time... Will
- that overprice 4000T from Escom handle my 60 megabyte tiff files... I don't
- think so.. I know, I use to run Art Department Professional and its nice to
- see how it would always crash if I had a file bigger than 6 megs. Photoshop
- on the PC or MAc will eats circles around any Amiga application when it comes
- to image control, palette, and the things you speak of....
-
-
- Its funny to see how my old Amigas redraw the screen.. All my Amiga freinds
- say ooooh, ahhh, "my machine can display workbench @ 800x600 in 16 colors"
- Whooopee.. A $60 PCI video card for my Pentium allows me to see 800x600 at 16
- million colors at 90 hz refresh.. Heck, my PC displays 1600x1600 at 16
- million colors.. Lets see an Amiga do this?? Care to see a nice screen shot of
- my PC running a quicktime video, formatting a floppy, running Photoshop,
- netscape and downloading a FTP all at the same time???? Let see this done an
- Amiga.. I don't think so.
-
- Face it... Amigas were cool.. Been there. Done that.. Now its time to move on
- my friends.
-
- >Just as I would argue that the Mac has the same advantage when it comes to
- > desktop
- >publishing. It was grabbed early on by printers and the like who saw that it
- > could
- >do more than the PC in this area (at the time), and these people shaped it's
- > software
- >into that direction.
- >l
-