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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 20:44:39 GMT
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- A while ago H Doan said about Re: What is the purpose and role of the Amiga?
- >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.
-
- What was the blur radius? This can make a difference.
-
- Photogenics is hardly the most optimised of programs. The new version will be
- rewritten in C and will be faster than the E original.
-
- <snip>
-
- >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..
-
- Ever heard of virtual memory? Just to refresh your memory.....
-
- VMM_V3_3.lha util/misc 267K 15+Virtual memory for Amigas with MMU
-
-
-
- >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....
-
- Gee wow, on my PC pentium 100 w/16 meg ram, WP7.0 doesn't seem to redraw the
- screen correctly, and crashed several times while editing an essay. Obviously
- the PC can't word process.
-
- Ever thought of becoming a politician?
-
-
- >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.
-
- It can all be done. Of course, since we'd use different screens, it wouldn't all
- be on one screen.
-
- just to enlighten you. I could run photoshop and netscape on my Mac emulator.
- I could download files on AMFTP, or FTPmount, which treats FTP sites as devices,
- while formatting a disk.
-
- Simultaneosly on an alternative screen I could be using Xaanim to view this
- quicktime.
-
- And PLEASE. Amigas are THE machine for formatting flopppies.
-
- Why not format four at the same time :-)
-
- <snip>
-
-