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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: More Marc stuff, but this time it's an answer!
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Date: 15 Sep 90 20:26:51 GMT
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In article <30574@nigel.ee.udel.edu> S36666WB%ETSUACAD.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu (Brian Wright) writes:
>Marc Barrett writes:
>>   Now, you and other people can insult me all you want.  If it makes
>>you feel good, go ahead.  I don't pay much attention to the insults
>>anyway.  But all the "Marc Barrett is ignorant and stupid" postings in
>>the world won't change the situation with the Amiga's color video
>>capabilities.
>
>No it won't, but third party companies will.  Look at Mimitecs,
>Firecracker/24, >DCTV, Video Toaster, and Ham-e just to name the
>few that I know of....

	The problem with all of the devices listed above (except
possibly the video toaster, I don't know) is that none of them
allow programs to interactively draw on the screen in a 640x???
mode and at a reasonable pace. In general, I am referring to
using the workbench and standard screens.
	Programmers who are writing software for business apps,
word proc., DTP, etc. (ie non-video) will not start writing
windowing functions, etc. on their own. HAM-E is limited to
320x400 mode and no flicker-fixing. The Toaster, Firecracker and
Mimetics are all framebuffers which would require programmers to
work at the bitmap level. DCTV as I understand it doesn't support
the workbench and screens.
	Therefore, the <$200 800x600 w/ 256 out of 16.7M color
VGA board for the IBM, from the users perspective, is far better
than DCTV or HAM-E because at least their CAD program will
support it! 
	Now, please don't remind me of all the benefits of the
Amiga system over VGA, I haven't forgotten them. The blitter
speeds up animation significantly, you have chip ram for easy
access to multiple frames, etc. 768x480 w/4 out of 4096 is good
for most uses, just not all!

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	-- Ethan

Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

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