Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!b-tech!ais.org!jph From: jph@ais.org (Joseph Hillenburg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore! Message-ID: <4P1-AL%@irie.ais.org> Date: 21 Mar 91 12:31:18 GMT References: <1991Mar20.194243.11450@news.iastate.edu> Sender: jph@ais.org Organization: UMCC, Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 45 In article <1991Mar20.194243.11450@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Mister Clueless) writes: >In article , lcs@remus.rutgers.edu (Lyle C. Seplowitz) writes: >>>What else, well better graphics displays would be nice. I'm not >>talking about those 24-bit boards out now, I'm talking a change in the >>graphics chips. Why can't the Amiga have 24-bit color standard? What >>about 8-bitplanes of color? The low-end machine might not have all the >>graphic capabilites as the A3000, but users should be able to expand >>easily. Simple. It's too damn expensive! 8 bit or 12 bit may be fine for a standard. BUT IT'LL MOST LIKELY BE FOR SOME HIGH-END AMIGA. > This has been hashed and bashed before, by me in particular if by nobody >else. The problem is that the custom chips are already at their limits, >and no big improvements are possible unless the custom chips are totally >redesigned. > > Unfortunately, Commodore isn't exactly in a hurry to redesign the >custom chips. Commodore has not been investing enough in research and >development for the past five years, and recently slashed what little >they were investing. Thus, I would not expect any improvements at all >in the Amiga's color, graphics, sound, or floppy I/O capabilities for >at least three years, minimum. No 24-bit color, no 8-bitplanes, no >improvements. Yeah, right. Commodore is making new custom chips right now, and the A3000UX has 1.44 meg floppies. > I don't like it any more than anybody else, but this is the harsh and >bitter truth. When a company like Commodore invests nothing in their >future, the future cannot be expected to be bright. Commodore has not >been investing in their own future, and the future isn't bright for >either themselves or the Amiga. > It's not the truth. You can bet their working on it. Remember, YOU'RE the one who said Commodore was laying off engineers, when, in fact, they were hiring. So, Marc, get your head out of your ass before you post again. -- // Joseph Hillenburg/Blackwinter, Secretary, Bloomington Amiga Users Group \X/ jph@valnet.UUCP jph@irie.ais.org jph@gnu.ai.mit.edu "Project: Desert Storm is also known as ``The Mother of All Ass-Kickings.''"