Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!accuvax.nwu.edu!tank!ncar!ames!xanth!ukma!rutgers!att!mcdchg!ddsw1!corpane!sparks From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Byte Bites. (So have we read the Graphics section yet?) Message-ID: <536@corpane.UUCP> Date: 5 Apr 89 13:19:55 GMT References: <8904011630.AA21629@jade.berkeley.edu> Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky Lines: 35 In article , mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes: > Before you start writing flame mail to BYTE magazine, perhaps it might help to > actually read the article from which these quotes were taken out of context.... > > > *Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.sys.amiga: 1-Apr-89 Byte Bites. (So have we rea..* > > *Jonathan Crone@UREGINA1. (1829)* > > > 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.... > Granted. That was a pretty slimy thing to do. To be perfectly acurate, the screen shot was of an Amiga *emulating* an IBM pc (probably a bridge card) and running flight simulator. You can tell it was from an Amiga because you can see the Amiga mouse pointer on the screen! In my opionion, that is dirty pool. If the layout department screwed up and accidently printed an IBM screenshot and labelled it an Amiga shot, that might have been an honest mistake. But in order to get a screen shot of an Amiga running a CGA program (MSDOS flight simulator), they had to actually plan it. They had to load the bridge board and flight simulator and then take the picture. No way to 'do it by accident'. -- John Sparks | {rutgers|uunet}!ukma!corpane!sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps [not for RHF] | sparks@corpane.UUCP | 502/968-5401 thru -5406 As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.