Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!tsun8.doc.ic.ac.uk!zmacv14 From: zmacv14@tsun8.doc.ic.ac.uk.doc.ic.ac.uk (C P Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Faith in the Amiga Message-ID: <1521@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 31 Jan 90 15:50:56 GMT References: <02030.AA02030@sosaria> <5487@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> <+!1^3&@rpi.edu> <5494@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Reply-To: zmacv14@doc.ic.ac.uk (Phil Brown) Organization: Imperial College Department of Computing Lines: 26 People who criticise the Amiga's graphics on the basis of comparison with any other machine should remember that: 1 - The Amiga has had ALL of its display modes since at least '82 2 - You can buy this technology for #400 3 - The display is utterly flexible; you choose the mode and the number of colours that suit you, plus many different screens multidisplaying etc. 4 - IBMs et al have only had VGA for a year or two, and the vast majority still have Mono, CGA or EGA. I think that familiarity has bred dissent with the Amiga and that we only want more/better graphics because that is human nature and we've been fiddling with them for five years. They are still the best graphics on any machine available costing sub $10000. Maybe they will improve drastically over the next few years, hardware-wise (1.5? 8-}). OK, so 256+ colours on screen would be nice, as would 2^24 colour palette. But it is crass to expect this level of graphic support/ability at current prices. So you want PIXAR support? This is kind of specialist, and you expect C= to produce a nice easily affordable machine that suits your needs perfectly? So I say, if you think that the Amiga has limited graphics, fine; vote with your wallet and buy something else, just don't moan about the Amiga not being suitable for every single job you want to put it to. Phil Brown