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- From: diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: TECH: Amiga VR?
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 19:37:17 CET
- Organization: University of Washington
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- In <9301050611.AA28813@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>, on Jan 4, you wrote:
-
- > From: dream!Ray_Hines@bikini.cis.ufl.edu (Ray Hines)
- > Subject: Re: TECH: Amiga VR?
- > Date: 2 Jan 93 06:44:27 GMT
- > Organization: DreamStates BBS & CyberNet HQ in G'ville, FL 1-904-331-4317
- >
- >
- >
- > In a message dated Fri 2 Jan 93 18:58, Diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it
- > (diego) wrote:
- >
- > D> I am not saying WHICH machine is better for VR, I am just saying you
- > D> can take all the Toasters and Lightwaves, "plug'n'play", and all the
- > D> stories about the Amiga-inside-the-Virtuality-machine (true but it
- > D> doesn't render a pixel!) and throw them OUT-OF-THE-WINDOW.
- >
- > The Amiga system described above is not ideal for VR in my opinion.
- > It should just be equipped with different boards. There's your new
- > DVI graphics board which has 1024x1024 (or more?) resolution, 24 bit,
- > and according to several folks, is faster than a Silicon Graphics
- > workstation. There's the Rambrandt (sic) card which supports up to
- > 2048x2048 and has high speed processors on it. There's quite a few
- > cards out there that can certainly make the Amiga fly with graphics,
- > probably in real time (or at least near it). There IS some software
- > out there which suits VR work fine, in my opinion. I am sure more
- > will be developed especially now that the Amiga 4000 is out. I
- > recently had the opportunity to see one in person. It was impressive.
-
- Finally someone who seems to understand how the things work! You are
- RIGHT! if someone starts talking about graphics boards with graphics
- processors on it I can't disagree. A 68040 CAN do a lot, I already said
- this and I want to repeat it.
- My flame wasn't against Amiga, it was again Amigans who don't understand
- what VR is and go on talking about DVEs (Digital Video Effects, like the
- Toaster) and rendering packages.
-
- Can you please tell us the name of the software which suits VR work fine?
-
- > It had an animation in full color mode (this is the basic A4000 system
- > without any enhancements) of you flying through the Grand Canyon. It
- > was so fast it was just a blur. That's potential there.
-
- Was it pre-computed and compressed or rendered in real-time? It seems to
- me that THIS would make a great difference (BTW on the Amiga the play
- of compressed animations - IFF ANIM files - is almost completely done via
- the Blitter, not the CPU)...
-
- > Sorry, my friend, I wouldn't throw the Amiga out the window. That is,
- > if you use the right hardware and software which you probably weren't
- > aware of.
-
- Infact if you read carefully what I left from my previous message (top of
- this posting), I DIDN'T throw the Amiga out the window.
-
- Diego
-