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From: kurt@ritcsh.csh.rit.edu (Kurt Mosiejczuk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MegaSTe info
Summary: Stop the bickering...
Keywords: GO AWAY
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.200103.9075@ritcsh.csh.rit.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 91 20:01:03 GMT
References: <1991Feb3.121355.5874@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <1991Feb4.100645.23401@qut.edu.au> <1991Feb4.014940.14419@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
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In article <1991Feb4.014940.14419@marlin.jcu.edu.au> glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd) writes:
>Anyone who uses an Amiga in 640x400 or greater has a de-interlcing card
>or runs in productivity mode, 640x400x4.
  (NOTE: mention of additional hardware on AMIGA)
>
>Try doing 1280x512x2 on an ST with NO extra hardware, it's not possible,
>it is on an amiga.
  Now notice the comparison to an unmodified ST. Boy, how about if I compare
an ST with every available upgrade against an Amiga 500...

>
>>Try to do anything usefull in an unexpanded amiga while displaying a 640x200
>>x16 , extra-halfbright pic. More than 2 planes at 640*200 ( which is the
>>same as amiga 640x400 ) in an 8 MHz 68K system will require cpu cycles to
>
>The Amiga's graphics are far superior to the ST for speed and it's a well
>known fact.
 
 I didn't know that...
>
>>acquire video data. In the more colourful video modes you have to run your
>>CPU in the intervals.
>>
>>This is why amigas have limits on video ram. ST's have no limit on video ram
>>except the inherent ST memory limits this makes frame animation much easier
>>on an ST.
>
>There may be a physical limit to CHIP ram, but all the serious 8Meg
>Sound/Animation players use bank switching, it's not a problem at all.
  That isn't the point, the ST can do that WITHOUT bank switching...

>>> Matt Crowd.
>
>One look at Gem on an IBM turned me off the ST for life.
>
>ps. How about multi-tasking on an ST ?? Impossible.

Sorry pal, but you lose... How about MiNT or Minix...


Oh, why are you on this group anyway, you don't see me over in the ten
trillion amiga groups saying how STs are infinitely better than Amigas and
that you all are losers for buying them :-)...

So GO AWAY...

Kurt Mosiejczuk						kurt@nick.csh.rit.edu