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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 04:59:24 GMT
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- On Sat, 13 Apr 1996 06:58:00 GMT, finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn
- Higgins) wrote:
-
- >put up with 3.1 without feeling suicidal, but not '95.
-
- I suggest that before you do anything, you get a firmer grip on your
- feelings. I wouldn't want to think using a PC made you kill yourself.
-
- >>Disks? What are those? :)
- >
- >The things you said Win95 came on 24 of in a different message.
-
- My copied were purchased on CDROM, but I'll agree that a few programs
- these days still are sold on floppies...but I sure don't need to
- format them. :)
-
- >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.
-
- Whew! Hot stuff. You must either have
- A) An Amiga
- B) An UNIX Box
- C) A Win95 Box
- D) A NT Box
- E) A BeBox
- F) A MacOS Box
- ...
-
- Well, I could go on, but the point is, what you're doing is hardly
- unique anymore, and, at least for the first 5 OSs listed, all can do
- it without breaking a sweat.
-
- > All as seperate programs, with no lock-ups (unlike crap95).
-
- My Win95 doesn't lock up; do you own a PC that you've tried 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.
-
- We'll agree to disagree on that one. We've got dozens of people here
- using the Plus pack with those cute backgrounds, and I don't see these
- 10 second redraws, even on "slow" 486-50s.
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