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From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper)
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Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
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Date: 9 Apr 91 18:45:17 GMT
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In article <5*1G-jlk1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>
>Have you seen the NeXT?

Do you want to be turned off completely by it?  Then...

>...look at Scene, and the Fish and Eagle
>movies if you get a chance to see one.  Also, look at a game BoinkOut,
>and BreakApp, two Breakout like games.  You can definitely do some
>animation on the NeXT, I'm just not sure how much.

Sorry.  I'm about to become a NeXT rep here on campus, so I've had to
keep my mouth shut during this conflagration.  But this comment made me
giggle like a rabid tapir.

Even on an '040 NeXT, animation is absolutely pathetic.  The Amiga's
blitter does a good deal better, to be sure.

>-Mike

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