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- From: vasc@camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt (VASCO ALEXANDRE DA SILVA COSTA(leic))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: 16 Apr 1996 13:43:49 GMT
- Organization: Instituto Superior Tecnico
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- David Corn (dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:
- : On Sat, 13 Apr 1996 06:58:00 GMT, finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn
- : Higgins) wrote:
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- : >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
- : ...
-
- A BeBox ??? Where do you sell them... NT runs Worms ?!?!?!
- UNIX runs Worms ?!?!? Doom yes, but WORMS ?!?!?!
- I think the dude used ARexx so Win95 is off... MacOS is off... UNIX is off...
- Guess what's left... ;)
-
- : 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?
- I own a P100 with 1 gig HD, try running PageMaker 5... Win95 Paint...
- Install SB16 Win95 drivers... Adobe Photoshop...
-
- : >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.
-
- Are you using the "show window contents while draging" ?
- The Amiga doesn't do this so i'll be fair...
-
- You have S3 gfx, or Trident gfx or Cirrus gfx ?
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