Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!princeton!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Cheesy Amiga Video Message-ID: Date: 7 Sep 90 18:25:10 GMT References: <29435@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Organization: Drew University/NJIN Lines: 51 Cheesy Amiga video? Haaarrrmph. In article <29435@nigel.ee.udel.edu> BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: [ Marc bitches about amiga video... again. No new arguments this time either. Interesting Message-ID:, I wonder where he learned to hack NNTP servers like that. :-) ] > 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 Don't you realize that the Amiga is the only system with BOTH bitplane graphics (good for real-time animation animation, user interfaces, etc. Bad for large number of colors and large screen size) as well as "chunky" bitmaps (ala Mac II et al) (bad for real-time animation, user interfaces, etc. Good for large number of colors and large screen size). Huh? When you buy an frame buffer you can have the high-end megapixel displays, etc. but you still have a separate bit-plane'ed screen for your user interface. Your control panel should be on a fast, 8-color screen. 16 if you want to be flamboyant. You are about to ask, "Who would buy a frame buffer? They're expensive." Well, any professional that is dumping to slides or videotape would. I have seen systems that are shipping that do this with the Amiga and a TARGA board using TGAlink. We will see this kind of system appearing in native mode very soon. "What about the people that can't afford a frame buffer?" Well, they're not doing professional work, are they? So, HAM or well-dithered high resolution is going to be good enough, isn't it? This summer I got to watch a lot of people use Mac II's to put together presentations (I was assigned to "real" work :). I felt sorry for them because their 8-bit video card slowed them down when doing any of the pseudo-programming involved. I would much rather have 2 graphics sub-systems (one fast and one slow) like an Amiga with a framebuffer. Conclusion? -MB- should buy a Mac II or get a framebuffer for his Amiga. I still want to know: "If the Amiga really has this many problems then why doesn't -MB- sell his and buy something else?" -Tom Limoncelli limonce@pilot.njin.net tlimonce@drew.edu Gripe: People who buy video systems by looking at the numbers. Disclaimer: -MB- is a trademark of Milton Bradley.