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- From: Andy@shu-wood.demon.co.uk (Andrew Shuttlewood)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: What is the purpose and role of the Amiga?
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 20:44:35 GMT
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- A while ago H Doan said about Re: What is the purpose and role of the Amiga?
- >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
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