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- From: gi@gj-cent.demon.co.uk (Gi)
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- Subject: Re: What is the purpose and role of the Amiga?
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 22:37:56 GMT
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- H Doan wrote in <4krhq2$8e9@nntp1.best.com> on 14-Apr-96 18:56:41 :
-
- >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.
-
- Photogenics has been optimised twice since the review you mention plus the
- memory bus on the A4000 was flawed, an accelerator such as the Cyberstorm would
- easily match the 15 seconds rate.
-
- >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
-
- Imagine 4.0 is released on Amiga, Lightwave 4.0 is too, Caligari was crap
- anyway. How about Cinema 4-D, Real 3D v 3, Raystorm etc.. new products.
-
- >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.
-
- You said it yourself, Old 4000, if you upgraded it with a fast GFX card and an
- accelerator you would be ok.
-
- >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....
-
- I handle files bigger than 6 meg all the time, AD Pro is a bit old now, I use
- Photogenics, ImageFX and soon I'll use TV Paint which in combo will easily
- outperform Photoshop.
-
- >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.
-
- The Cybervision 64 will easily perform the Graphic modes you mention, i'll be
- buying one soon.
-
- >Face it... Amigas were cool.. Been there. Done that.. Now its time to move on
- > my friends.
-
- Your choice, I've used Amiga's for the past 9 years and feel no need to move on,
- I've tried Win 95 on a Pentium and it's interface is written with 'new idiot
- users' in mind.
-
- I too will be running 800x600 @ 24-bit shortly, I could run higher modes but
- I'll need a better monitor first.
-
-