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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reactions to IBM PC2 graphics
Message-ID: <1482@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Apr-87 13:47:31 EST
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1482
Posted: Wed Apr 15 13:47:31 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Apr-87 04:41:45 EST
References: <10726@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <1964@hoptoad.uucp> <541@neoucom.UUCP> <739@sputnik.tc.fluke.COM>
Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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Keywords: VGA Killer graphics

In article <739@sputnik.tc.fluke.COM> kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:
>I stand by the rest of my analysis.  I don't think the PCII has anything on
>the amiga in the area of graphics.  I am waiting until I can see some
>technical documentation.

What may be interesting is to find out how the PS/2 series and the Mac II
compare to the Amiga when running DPaint II.  I would assume that EA is
motivated to port it to both machines, since that is the hottest selling
package on the Amiga and can really put multi-plane graphics to good use.

I would expect that we might notice the greatest differences when moving
a large cut-out brush around, and when doing the compute intensive perspective
and scaling operations.

I would also expect that Dave Wecker's ray tracer would perform much better
on the Mac II and a 386 PS/2 due to 32-bit computing power.

Aegis Animator, if ported would probably still perform better on the Amiga.

And, Amiga will still probably have the price/performance ratio beat, though
it seems that it may be getting a little harder to measure.

Keith Doyle
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