Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!widener!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga bashing Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 07:32:58 GMT References: <1991Jun20.200326.16487@bmerh409.bnr.ca> <1991Jun21.024820.27900@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <1991Jun21.073046.8276@ncsu.edu> <1991Jun21.113939.14446@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <9106221550.03@rmkhome.UUCP> <1156@stewart.UUCP> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 56 In article <1156@stewart.UUCP> jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel) writes: >In article <9106221550.03@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes: >> >>Of course, you can buy a high end SVGA board that does 1280x1024 with 256 >>gray scales and mucho colors. It will have a TI34xxx processor, and 16 megs >>of ram, and Z-buffers, etc. You to can get great animation from your 386 or >>486 pc for just $2000-$4000 for the graphics card. Since you have spent all >>this money for the card, then you should get a .25mm dot pitch monitor. At >>about $1000-$2000. >> >>So that's good animation for $3000-$6000 plus the price of the 386 or 486 >>box. >> > >Really? And how much would it cost to equip an Amiga with similar >capabilities? Well, it would have to go beyond payment, since such products >don't happen to exist for the Amiga. The real truth is that a standard VGA >card does low-res animation just as well as the Amiga, but with more colors >(256 at 320x200). > >Don't kid yourself by implying that the Amiga video chipset rivals that of >a $2K graphics adapter for a PC. > >By the way, I picked up my .25mm dot pitch Seiko CM-1440 for $459. Coming for the Amiga in August: Rembrandt from Progressive Peripherals. Rembrandt consists of: - 34020 with sockets for 4 graphics coprocessors (comes with one installed). - 16 Megs of video RAM - 2 Megs of CPU program RAM - delivers 1Kx1K 32-bit color graphics - 24-bit RGB plus 4-bit overlay and 4-bit key - Supports various resolutions - RGB and Composite output Cost: $3000 I bet this compares with a $3K PC board (and you get the benefit of an Amiga running at 100% speed on top if the graphics capabilities). I am not affiliated in any way with Progressive Peripherals. -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************