Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!epicb!jerry
From: jerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: More Marc stuff, but this time it's an answer!
Message-ID: <406@epicb.com>
Date: 18 Sep 90 16:09:26 GMT
References: <30574@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Reply-To: jerry@epicb.UUCP (Jerry Thompson)
Organization: Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN
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>How is it that WE as Amiga users have to RELY on Commodore for GRAPHICS? There
>are products that will essentially give the Amiga NATIVE 24 bit color in
>Hi Res.  Namely DCTV.  Yes this will be an external device.  But quite an in-
>genius one.  It's cost will be fairly low too.  Try $495 List.  Much lower
>than that in the store and mail order I am sure.  It is also a 24 bit digitzer/
>framegrabber.  It will also allow FULL NTSC (24 bit equivilent) animations with
>whatever limitations that standard Hi Res has.  The Animations being REAL-TIME
>too.  Even if Amiga does get a 32 bit graphics chipset, will the machine be
>fast enough for 24 bitplane 24 bit color REAL-TIME animations.  Possibly not.
>Such a CHIPSET would most likely not work in the 500/1000/2000/2500s.  But
>will most likely work on the 3000 on up.  DCTV will work on ALL Amigas.
>

DCTV is fine for what it does.  Firecracker 24 will help.  The Toaster will
help a lot, but...  Mac 32 bit Quickdraw provides a device independent 
interface for Mac programs.  You can drag a window onto any 24 bit Mac
framebuffer.  Even have multiple framebuffers for a HUGE virtual desktop
spread out over several monitors.  Not the kind of solution I would want.
I prefer one monitor - several screens.  But the integration is fairly 
seamless.  And the Mac community is beginning to figure out what video is.
Windows 3.0 is threatening to do the same kind of thing for the PC world.
The Amiga's slide in the market is real, but it doesn't have to continue.
The interactive multimedia applications on the Amiga are knock-out type
stuff.  The Mac and PC worlds are going to have as good or better stuff
available next year.  Look at who Autodesk has hired (Dan Silva, of 
DPaint III fame for one).  And this stuff works on 24 bit boards.  The
Amiga software will have to do the same *JUST TO KEEP UP*.  I'm not saying
the sky is falling, just don't bury your head in the sand.  <- Cute, no?

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