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- From: Andy@shu-wood.demon.co.uk (Andrew Shuttlewood)
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- Subject: Re: What is the purpose and role of the Amiga?
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 20:09:18 GMT
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- A while ago H Doan said about Re: What is the purpose and role of the Amiga?
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- >Again, you didn't clearly get my message... 20 Amiga 2000 ' 040s compared to
- >one Pentium Pro... I said "REAL TIME"... Can an Amiga Suped UP compare to an
- > Open GL, Glint accelerated PC... IF so, this Amiga is a lot faster than my
- >SGI or PC. Wake up and smell the coffee.. The Next platform for the 3d
- >market will be NT based PC... Heck, those new shiny 16 meg OPen GL, GLint
- >Video cards can compete and SURPASS those Suns and SGIs.
-
- As far as I know, all those video cards don't do rendering. Light source
- shading is one thing, rendering is another.
-
- >Good grief.. And to be honest, I don't think Photogenics can ever handle a
- >40+ meg file...
-
- Why not?
-
- >From what I remember, Amigas don't support File swapping..
-
- Again - it's called virtual memory, and it's a free addition.
-
- >If not, how amigas have you seen with over 64 megs of real ram.. If so, how
- >fast is the Ram without wait state or bottlenecks to perform such feats??
-
- Photogenics two will support page swapping without the OS helping, but
- again check out VMM.
-
- >>
-
- >>The Cybervision 64 will easily perform the Graphic modes you mention, i'll
- >>be buying one soon.
-
- >Oohhh.. Sure,, Like it can do 1600x 1600 at 24 bits.. Again, does this card
- >support new APIs like Open GL, 3DR.. Does it have support for Full motion
- >Mpeg and soon DVD.. Can it render faster than a SONY playstation or Sega
- >Saturn??
-
- Cybergraphics 3 will allegedly have 3d code built in. DVD: well we're
- just waiting for the standard.... which isn't going to happen soon.
-
- >I figure the answer is a BIG NO... Man, it was sure great to play Virtual
- >Fighter on my Girlfriends 12 year old brother's PeeCee the otherday... REAL
- >Time , Full motion, Immersive 3D..
-
- >I have a nice 600k VRML file created on my SGI and ported over to my PC.. Let
- > see if this video card can let you walk through my building in real time
- >with full textures... Ooooops... I forgot, Amigas don't support VRML. But
- >when or if it ever does, I'll be more than happy to email it to you. Lets
- >see how your Almighty Amiga crawl to a sudden halt before you reach the
- >door..
-
- >And like the Amiga Work Bench is intuitive... It is so sloppy.. Even Magic
- >WorkBench is a sloppy remedial cover-up.
-
- Magic Workbench is just an icon replacement.
-
- Didn't you know that?
-
- We also have Newicons and Icongraphics, both of which I prefer
-
- MCP is a Workbench enhancement.
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