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- From: flui@fraser.sfu.ca (Francis Wai Gee Lui)
- Subject: Re: Impulse defects!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.065734.16187@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Sep10.012208.14255@news.unomaha.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 06:57:34 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <1992Sep10.012208.14255@news.unomaha.edu> marnold@cwis.unomaha.edu (Matthew Eldon Arnold) writes:
- >Just read the Summer 1992 issue of the Impulse Gazette. Allow me to post some
- >of the more disturbing passages.
- []
- >What do you expect these people to say? I must admit their approach is very
- >appealing to the Amiga crowd. They could have said, "based on what we've seen
- >at the Siggraph 92 show, obviously nothing is special about the Amiga anymore.
- >And similarly, nothing is special about the price at which is can do it. We
- >are going to make programs for the PC so when the Amiga goes belly up, we wont"
- >It was wise of them to phrase it: "the most capitalistic [reason] is that we
- >here at Impulse would very much like to keep the doors open." Nice try.
-
- What's wrong with that? Don't forget that you're comparing a market that is
- at LEAST 20 TIMES the size of the Amiga market! Even if Imagine for the PC
- was a partial flop, it'd probably sell as many copies as the Amiga version!
-
- >I hate to say it, but the Amiga isn't anything special anymore -- even when
- >it comes to video. Even Impulse says clones are cheap, and even they are
- >gonna follow to masses for monatery reasons. The Big C had better do
- >something real significant in the near future!
-
- On the contrary, the Amiga IS still special for video. No other computer
- allows you to do video titling and other video effects for less. Period.
- That simple fact is what forces TV stations--and even Apple--to use it.
- A cheap A500 can do it! Meanwhile, every other computer out there requires
- additional boards and faster processors for video.
-
- Three-dimensional graphics, however, require brute processing power since
- most of the work is comprised of mathematical calculations, i.e. a cheap
- 486 clone is more cost-effective as a rendering engine than an A3000T/040.
-
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- / /\ /_/\__ Francis Lui
- /_/ /\\ \ \/\ e-mail: flui@sfu.ca
- \ \ / \ \ /
- \ \ \ \_\/ You know you're a techno-dweeb when
- \_\/ floppy drive applies more to your love life,
- and hard drive to your machines.
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