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From: sterling@dasys1.UUCP (Sterling Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Frame Buffers
Summary: Mimetics Frame Buffer
Message-ID: <10853@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 89 00:00:45 GMT
References: <438@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: sterling@dasys1.UUCP (Sterling Brown)
Organization: Datamerica Systems, NYC
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In article <438@crash.cts.com> michaelf@pro-graphics.cts.com (Michael Franzyshen) writes:
>Network Comment: to #4261 by sterling@dasys1.UUCP
>
>You have made a MISTAKE.  A 286 or 386 platform coupled with a targa 24 or
>targa 32 is going to blow the Amiga out of the water, although at more than
>twice the cost of a stock amiga.   I love the Amiga as much as the next guy,
>but let's be realistic...

     Actually Mimetics makes a frame buffer that is supposed to be comparable
to or better than a targa equiped machine.  And then there is the Video Toaster
When ever it comes out it will blow the targa away.  All day I work with Targa
boards and intel based platforms and it makes me sick when I think that the
Amiga has hardware comparable with it but no one is putting it to wide spread
use.  It would make me feel a lot better to see Amiga screen shots in 
Computer Graphics magazine.  Then every one will know what the Amiga can do.
The thing that gets me the sickest is to hear my boss talk about Intel's 
DVI sweeping the desktop video market off it's feet and the demise of the
Amiga.  Anyway, I'd like to see Mimetics and NewTek realy push their products
more.  Commodore is supposed to be bringing out their PVA Graphics board
for the Amiga.  The last thing I read about it was that it would have a 256 
color display out of a palette of millions.  When I was at the World of      
Commodore last month one of Commodore's reps said they will be going with
24 bits of color.  This will give it 4 billion colors on the screen at one
time.  This graphics board and the others should make for realy sophisticated
interactive exhibits.  This should make my boss change his mind about the   
Amiga.  I have been pushing him to spec an Amiga system for one of our clients
for some time now.  That why I asked about available frame buffers.  Anyway
I've typed enough now.  So long.....

						sterling@dasys1