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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: 4 Jun 91 17:45:03 GMT
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taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>   Time for a reality check.  For 95% of the people in the Amiga community,
>the Toaster is totally useless.  The Toaster is not going to save the
>Amiga, because it is a product intended for a very limited purpose.  Few
>Amiga owners have any need whatsoever for a special-effects box, and the
>flickering display makes the Toaster unsuitable for other applications.
>
>   The ECS isn't going to do much for the Amiga, either, because it was
>obsolete before it even went into production.  The ECS is also 98% 
>identical to the very oldest Amiga chipset.  
>   

man, you are on drugs or something.  the ECS has a heck of alot more features
than just new display modes.  can you name another computer system that allows
you to switch between a PAL or NTSC display on the fly? (course virtually no
other system has any sort of NTSC OR PAL compatibility so this is almost moot)
can you name any other system that has a totaly programmable display?  you can
create some weird display modes with the new chipset, try a 640x960
productivity interlaced mode.. (you interlace the productivity mode to generat
a 960 mode).  the ECS is not meant to be a savior anyways.  of course cbm
isn't going to release the chips when the os won't support it (when 2.0 comes
out it will, and i'm sure the ecs will be available).

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