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From: CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET (Jonathan Crone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Byte Bites. (So have we read the Graphics section yet?)
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Date: 1 Apr 89 16:21:15 GMT
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So does anyone remmber about a month ago after Leo posted that
Byte had pulled the art section because of too many amiga pictures
we all hoped that Byte would at least do a good job of the
reviews of the competing systems????


Well, they didn't...

Page 258.
Supposedly a screen picture of the amiga version of flight simulator
is really a screen picture off a PC, Because it sure as heck ain't the
screen that i see when I fly flight Sim....


Furthermore....

"From the original Amiga1000 to the less expensive and
LESS EXPANDABLE?????????? {Emphasis mine} Amiga 500 and the higher-
powered Amiga 2000 the amiga begins with 68000... "

"the amiga has a trio of custom IC's dedicated to processing
video information..... the amiga has a degree of multitasking...""

DEGREE??? what the HELL do they call having the Editor, a terminal program
a mandlebrot, three CLI's, and a Compiler running...
thats just a degree of  multitasking????

And this is rich....

"The amiga has fallen behind the MacII in the sheer number of colours
.... and so is less competitive as a design and industrial or
business graphics tool."

(so what about the price???? sheesh)

"the amiga's strength is shown in pure graphics tasks such as games
animation and video work..."
relatively true, but i'm not sure i'm happy about the F***ing Games
mention....

Oh yeah, and the much hyped amiga image on the cover of the graphics section..
is not even that good of a raytraced image....
AND THEY DON'T say that it was created with an amiga!!!!


yes I'm frustrated, and its almost enough to make me write
my first letter to these bozos,
(not that they'll print it of course..)

JpC


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Jonathan P. Crone    CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET      cronejp@mcl.UUCP

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