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From: jec@iuvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga impressions et al
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 14:09:00 EDT
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	Strange that the Amiga's main deficiency is it's inability to
display readable 24x80 text.  Has anyone tried hooking up a (sin of sins)
a black and white monitor to the Amiga or is it impossible?  I was also
not that impressed upon finally seeing an Amiga in person.  The bouncing
ball demo was not terribly impressive (except for the source) since they
did it by flipping color registers.  If they had managed to do a two-axis
rotation on the ball, that would have been impressive.  If you watch the
"setup" of the ball, you can see the boundaries where the color areas are.
I was fairly impressed with the sound (especially the music demo).  If
anyone figures out how to do reasonable 24x80 text, please let me know.


James E. Conley			Usenet: {ihnp4,pur-ee,purdue}!iuvax!jec
I.U. Dept. of Linguistics	Phone:	(812) 335-6458
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Bloomington, IN. 47405