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From: cpca@iceman.jcu.oz (C Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cheesy Amiga Video
Summary: Atari CDTV has same video too....
Message-ID: <939@iceman.jcu.oz>
Date: 7 Sep 90 01:17:01 GMT
References: <29435@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: JCUNQ, Townsville, Qld, Australia
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In article <29435@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
> 
>    IMHO, Commodore will NEVER recover from this rut.  It has been
> over four years since the ECS started being developed, and it isn't
> even fully available yet.  If the 32-bit chip set takes half as long
> to develop (and I doubt it will) then it will be at least two years
> before we see anything.
> 
[ more stuff about Commodore needing good video deleted]
> 
>                                  -MB-

I agree with Marc completely.  I have just read an article about the new
Amiga CD-TV and it too has the exact same video standard as the old Amiga 500
(if it's lucky it might have ECS which is a very slight improvement...)

Not only are Commodore way behind on graphics standards (I have read the
latest IBM i486 line will have a new standard better than VGA), but IBM now
have multi-tasking, virtual memory and hardware memory protection with 
Windows 3.0. I have seen the a3000 and it's 4 colour workbench pales
compared to Windows 256 colours, even though it is a huge improvement.

With all this stuff about the Amiga being "the machine" for multimedia, I
am wondering why?  It's graphics are worse and IBM/Mac have/will have much
more software available for them given the recent crush of multimedia hype.

2.0 was a chance to change that and put virtual memory/memory protection into
the system.  It wouldn't have mattered if some software was broken, at least
developers like Lotus/Borland might have considered porting some of their
excellent software to the 3000.  As it is, I think the a3000 will probably
be continued to be ignored in mainstream magazines etc.

And when are we EVER going to see UNIX or the toaster???
(can anyone actually go into a store and buy them???)

By the way, I program the Amiga because I like it, so I'm not biased
towards IBM or Macs. (In fact I hate Macs)

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