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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: OS Graphic Card Support (An Amiga at the foot of the rainbow?)
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.042732.10540@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 91 04:27:32 GMT
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In article <1991Feb11.100612.3894@kberg.se> svante@kberg.se (Svante Gellerstam) writes:
>In article <28476.27b2e54f@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2fmlhiccup@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>>Anyway, I would like to say the biggest thing that commodore should do to help
>>improve the Amiga system is to make the OS support third party graphics cards.
>
>A few months back i tried to wake up a discussion on this subject. It
>died fast - wonder why?
>
>I work for a company which is the agent for professional products for
>the Amiga. We hear customers complaining about the inferiority vs the
>MAC and PC and so on ad nauseam. The sad thing is that no significant
>development will be done until such a standard is presented period!
>
>As many of the good programs for Amiga is heavily resource bound for
>performance, almost all of them would take a leap forward if redressed
>in a 24-bit cloak...
>
>C'mon folk, let's get some views in here!
>
>
	Well, lessee, there's HAM-E, DCTV, ColorBurst,
FireCracker, Mimetics, Targa (via bridgeboard, it works), and of
course the Video Toaster. I think that is a wide variety. Things
on the Amiga seem to come out in bursts, we had a hypermedia
burst, and a networking burst, and now we have a video-card
burst.
	As to DIG for AmigaDOS, I think it is pretty clear that
Commodore is working on it. Last time they posted that they were
looking to hire new people, they specifically said that they were
looking for people with DIG experience! There have also been
comments made here-and-there that make it clear. Commodore is
also clearly working on a truly enhanced chipset. We simply have
to wait. I don't expect anything soon, but probably in a year
we'll see something. For now, we'll have to live with the video
toaster.

>>Jason Wilson
>
>
>-- 
>Svante Gellerstam		svante@kberg.se, d87sg@efd.lth.se


	-- Ethan


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