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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: "But Can It Sing and Dance?"
Message-ID: <901@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 89 15:46:39 GMT
References: <19638@louie.udel.EDU> <174@modcomp.UUCP> <566@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc.
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In article <566@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> chiodo@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (john.chiodo,ih,)
writes:
>Well I have a letter for Computer Graphics World and I hope they print it 
>to make there readers aware of the HAM and the lies about workbench.

Me too! I hope they print one of them (or both!), Cook is a dweeb. Notice that
he did the same thing with the Mac and there were several letters in the front
of the magazine about this. He sounds like a total msdos convert. If so, why
does he bother to write about other machines? Just to tear them down?

Also in the same issue of CGW:

PC Animation Hugs the Inside Lane - Gregory MacNicol says on page 61:
     "Still, all these achievements notwithstanding, the Amiga, like
     any other platform does have it's limitations. Since it has a maximum
     resolution of 640 by 400 and offers only 64 displayable colors, its
     users miss out on full color capability as well as anti-aliasing"

! Where do these guys get their information?!?!?! They continually mix
different resolutions (640 x 400) and colors (64, halfbrite at low res, should
be 32 halfbrite in hi res) and forget about HAM. ON the same page as this 
quote is a full color HAM picture that is obviously anti-aliased!!!!

Almost every rendering package and drawing program I know of uses anti-
aliasing! 

I noticed the above error after I wrote my letter about Mr. Cooks article, so I
didn't get to mention it to them. Maybe I should write another letter?

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