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- From: drizzit@eskimo.com (G. Baldwin)
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
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- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:20:42 GMT
-
- Frederick V. Heitkamp (heitkamp@ibm.net) wrote:
- : G. Baldwin (drizzit@eskimo.com) wrote:
-
- : : decompressing one of the files you already have, playing a Scream-
- : : Tracker3 MOD AND be playing a game of SimCity2000 in your ShapeShifter
-
- : One thing I have noticed is that the Amiga appears to be able to play a
- : sound file without interruption while copying files or whatever. Win95,
- : OS/2, and Linux all hesitate or interrupt the playing when certain
- : operations take place.
-
- To a point. I used to have a startup sound in my WB-Startup, but for some
- odd reason, when the BG came up, it would "pop" for a second. Really
- annoying. But you are correct, if I have any CPU/DMA time left over, I
- can play samples or MODs all I want w/o any major problems.
-
- : Fred Heitkamp
-
- Greg Baldwin (drizzit@eskimo.com)
- Amiga junkie and user since 1987 Computer Science & DTV Student
- Commodore64 fan since about 1983 http://www.eskimo.com/~drizzit
- Tyranical EFNet #Amiga Channel Operator "Drizzit"
-