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From: piaw@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Na Choon Piaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How about Sliced EHB ??
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Date: 7 Dec 89 03:44:32 GMT
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In article <1247@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>I think I know what you mean. You're not complaining about the new modes, but
>about all the software hassle we have to go through to *get* these new modes,
>right? I agree. It seems to me that this is a sign that the Amiga is lagging a
>bit in it's graphics technology. When the Amiga came out in '84 it's graphics
>was astounding, but geez that was almost 6 years ago. Now most everyone else is
>catching up and surpassing us. IBM has new extended VGA cards that do 640 x 480
>with 256 colors (not interlaced either) and the Mac has the same resolution
>with what? 16 million colors?

Well, I was just talking to Jay Miner on his BBS (The Mission, I can't
remember the number, you can mail me for it --- he's a really nice guy), and
we got to talking about it --- he basically said that if he had it to do all
over again, he would put in both the pixel graphics and bitplane model.

I asked him how long it would take him to do 8 bitplanes and 24 bit color
registers on the custom chips, (and a HAM mode with 16000 or so colors) and
he said something like "Well, it'll take a number of engineers too, and
technicians... something like 6 months or so."

In fact, he said something like "C= has to be working on it.  It's the next
logical step."  Of course, please do not quote either me or him as making
statements for CBM.  In fact, don't quote me as speaking for Jay, either, as
I'm typing this from memory.

>John Sparks   |  {rutgers|uunet}!ukma!corpane!sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps

Just read the AmigoTimes articles about the advertising campaign, and one
thing disturbs me ... no one who's doing it seem to really know a lot about
the Amiga, not that it'll have anything to do with the effectiveness of it,
but I just find that disturbing.

The other thing is that they're aiming for a younger audience, which might
not really have the money to blow on a computer, but that's not necessarily
true, I guess.

Let's hope that C= doesn't blow it.  I once talked to a Mac user about the
Amiga and the Mac (not all MacMuffins are *that* stupid, though most are..),
and unfortunately, we both came to the conclusion that Engineering doesn't
necessarily sell machines.  They help, but in the end, it's the marketing.

I'm just praying the Amiga makes it.
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Na Choon Piaw				piaw@cory.berkeley.edu		
I'm speaking only for myself!		"Still on honeymoon with his Amiga...."