Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!jessica.stanford.edu!bard From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Message-ID: <1991May15.061512.13294@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: 15 May 91 06:15:12 GMT References: <1991May7.235145.12420@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1991May12.190016.28094@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1991May12.201647.29549@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <91134.022556MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Academic Information Resources, Stanford University Lines: 25 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >I keep saying that the 040 is more powerful than the blittter + 030 >because Amiga users keep commenting that the NeXT cannot do animation. Mike, I am a NeXT user. I have one in my room, next to (and linked to) my Amiga 500. The NeXT cannot do animation as well as my 500. Period. I have no qualms about its speed. It's just not consistent or smooth. And don't give me any business about BreakApp or BoinkOut. Those are *tiny* objects. Show me a *smooth* 320X200 blit. As of now, I haven't seen *any* NeXT animation examples, within or without NeXT Inc., that have turned any Amiga users' heads. My good friend is a NeXT consultant. He can't come up with anything that shows off the NeXT as a workstation to do animation on. Are those movies in 'Scene' a standard format? Are they? No? Why not? Because they're hardcoded into the application? So as a user, then, *I* can't do animation on the NeXT at all. Hmm... >-Mike Dave Hopper | /// Anthro Creep | Academic Info Resources, Stanford |__ /// . . | Macincrap/UNIX Consultant bard@jessica. |\\\/// Ia! Ia! | -- Just remember: love is life, and Stanford.EDU | \XX/ Shub-Niggurath! | hate is living death. :Black Sabbath