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- From: haroldk@stack.urc.tue.nl (Harold Klink)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 09:41:14 +0200
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- ttammi@spider.compart.fi (Tiitus Tamminen) writes:
-
- >haroldk@stack.urc.tue.nl (Harold Klink) wrote:
-
- >->Well, that we'll agree to disagree on that one. But here at work I've
- >->seen TWO Win95 machines (Both with PLUS pack) redrawing screen even
- >->slower than My A1200! Mind you it's pentiums with 8 ans 16mb of ram
- >->and a so called fast gfx card.
-
- >Ah, what a meaningless comparison. So there are cases when a PC might
- >actually draw a screen slower than what Amiga might be able to achieve
- >in some special cases? Oh, what a novel concept!
-
- >Next time, you might want to try some real performance tests, with
- >the same resolutions, bitdepths, same graphics data etc.
-
- And also the same horsepower?! Also a fast GFX card for my A1200?! ;-)
- The discussion is: AGA is slow and outdated (Yes, in some cases it is!)
- Then I come up with an example of a machine with more horsepower, more RAM
- a fast(?) GFX card, show that even my A1200 outperforms is (in more than
- *SOME* cases) and all I get is THIS lousy answer?!
- This is a *FACT* that I've *EXPERIENCED*! THAT'S what counts for me here!
- And no, "yeah, but....." There's no time for 'but', since time is money!
- That PENTIUM machine with DRAM GFX card was updating it's sreens UTTERLY
- slow, even compared to an A500! Hell, we Amigans can choose a lower
- resolution with 4 or 8 colours to work in, if we think it's would become too
- slow. On that peecee you can't! Also a *FACT*. I have my WB in 8 colours.
- I need something to be shown in more than 8 colours?! My Amiga opens it's
- own screen for that app, if I want that! And switching screens on an Amiga
- goes UTTERLY FAST! Also a *FACT*. But since peecee users don't have these
- possibilities, I'll probably get an answer like "Who needs SCREENS anyway"
- Sigh....Some people never learn....
-
- Harold.
- (Btw the resolution was HIGHER on my Amiga (640*512) vs 640*480. The peecee
- was running in 24 bit mode, while my Amiga was running in only 3 bits)
-