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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Faith in the Amiga
Message-ID: <1386@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 90 14:18:43 GMT
References: <02030.AA02030@sosaria>
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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wizard@sosaria.UUCP (Chris Brand) writes:


|In message <1343@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:

||3> In 640 x 400 mode, VGA is  *S L O W*, even on a 386 machine. Dpaint II

|Agreed when it comes to VGA. BUT...why is everybody talking about VGA? VGA
|is not the only graphics card available for messydos. I've recently talked
|to someone who works for Autodesk. He told me about the Autodesk Renderman
|with that graphics card..uh, what was its name again...anyway, you can
|even play those Pixar films on it. Of course you can't render them in THAT
|quality, but it still must be one of the most impressing graphics systems.

|BUT - suppose I had the money to buy the Renderman with that card, I had
|to get a messydos machine. That's the problem. I CAN'T expand my Amiga to
|more graphics power.

Well Chris, let's suppose you did have enough cash to buy this nifty
video card and the Autodesk Renderman program. The problem would be that
the video card would be totally useless on any other application except
the AutoDESK Renderman program. That's why everyone is comparing the
Amiga to the VGA systems, VGA is the closest (hah!) IBM can claim to
a *standard* video card. Everything else is so specialized that nobody
supports it. 

To me that is the big advantage of the Amiga over IBM, the standard Graphics,
file formats, and system drivers.

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