Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!coplex!disk!specter From: specter@disk.uucp (Byron Max Guernsey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: COMPUTE! SUX Message-ID: <1991May01.213205.8415@disk.uucp> Date: 1 May 91 21:32:05 GMT References: <1558@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> Organization: The Alaskan Organization for Amiga Domination Lines: 48 glin@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (George Lin [900116]) writes: >Whatever happened to this magazine? >Isn't PC Week, PC Magazine, PC *.* enough? >Now we have a PC Magazine-wanna-be-but-won't-admit-it magazine here. I agree totally. I bought it cause I thought they were a ALL computer mag, but then I noticed it seems to be one of those PC pages things. Anyway what ticked me off is that in the "Letters" section of the issue I saw someone wrote in and asked what computer they should get to start their child off in graphics and animation. (They said the kid was about 12 or 13) The editor (or whoever answers the letters) replied and said that he should get an IBM (of all machine!) and said that he will need at least a 386 and a postscript compatible laser printer...etc... Jeez this guy is nuts. I started writing a letter to the magazine displaying my disgust with it and to ask why he did not suggest an amiga with ALL of its animation programs and virtually endless graphics expandability, but then I decided it wasn't worth my effort...the letter would probably not appear...and I would have wasted 27 cents for a stamp and 20 minutes of my own time. I know I wouldn't go out and spend the money necessary to buy a 386, VGA, PostScript printer (laser that is), and who knows how much on animation software for ibm (Geeez and we all know about their "superior" .GL format! GAG! ) to start my kid out in animation, especially when the tools can be purchased for 1/2 the price and the child will have a better system for animation and graphics. I think the reply article was a waste of trees! Not to mention a waste of my time reading, and the most uninformed suggestion of the year. If you seriously want to get into animation and graphics I would suggest an amiga 3000 or 2000 with speed enhancements, some 3-d rendering and ray tracing software (I like Turbo Silver, but Sculpt-4d is supposed to be better), an animation program-> animagic by aegis would be nice...there are others of course, and later you could buy one of those 24 bit display boards...(HAM-E, CD_TV?, ColorBurst, etc) and of course for fun...a genloc! or even a toaster! Jeers to compute! Byron -- Byron 'Maxwell' Guernsey | /// //\\ specter@disk.UUCP or | /// // \\ uunet!ukma!corpane!disk!specter | \\\/// //====\\ "Great programs aren't written, they're fathered." \\\/ // \\ m i g a