Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!peregrine!ccicpg!garth From: garth@ccicpg.UUCP (Garth Armover acct) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Faith in the Amiga Message-ID: <58311@ccicpg.UUCP> Date: 15 Feb 90 16:54:15 GMT Distribution: na Organization: ICL North America (Business Systems), Irvine, CA. Lines: 121 References: <02030.AA02030@sosaria> <5487@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> <+!1^3&@rpi.edu> <5494@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> <1521@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> Sender: Reply-To: garth@ccicpg.UUCP (Garth Armorer acct) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: ICL North America, Irvine CA Keywords: In article <1521@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> zmacv14@doc.ic.ac.uk (Phil Brown) writes: > >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 AMEN!!! And quit bitching about/for what you probably couldn't afford anyway. I suspect, Phil, that most people doing the moaning and complaining are doing so just to be able to boast to their friends that their machine is capable of having/doing all the doo-dahs even though the system they currently own does not have 'the' neat feature because 'I' can't afford it. They probably don't even have a hard disk. To paraphrase the movie "4th of July", 'Some people say they don't like the Amiga, I say if you don't like the Amiga then get the hell off it' #:). "Sexism is Next to Racism" --GEA. Garth E. Armorer Part of the cheerleading song of Norfolk U. "We don't smoke, we don't drink, Norfolk, Norfolk" Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Faith in the Amiga Summary: Expires: References: <02030.AA02030@sosaria> <5487@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> <+!1^3&@rpi.edu> <5494@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> <1521@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> Sender: Reply-To: garth@ccicpg.UUCP (Garth Armover acct) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: ICL North America, Irvine CA Keywords: Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Faith in the Amiga Summary: Expires: References: <02030.AA02030@sosaria> <5487@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> <+!1^3&@rpi.edu> <5494@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> <1521@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> Sender: Reply-To: garth@ccicpg.UUCP (Garth Armorer acct) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: ICL North America, Irvine CA Keywords: In article <1521@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> zmacv14@doc.ic.ac.uk (Phil Brown) writes: > >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 AMEN!!! And quit bitching about/for what you probably couldn't afford anyway. I suspect, Phil, that most people doing the moaning and complaining are doing so just to be able to boast to their friends that their machine is capable of having/doing all the doo-dahs even though the system they currently own does not have 'the' neat feature because 'I' can't afford it. They probably don't even have a hard disk. To paraphrase the movie "4th of July", 'Some people say they don't like the Amiga, I say if you don't like the Amiga then get the hell off it' #:). "Sexism is Next to Racism" --GEA. Garth E. Armorer Part of the cheerleading song of Norfolk U. "We don't smoke, we don't drink, Norfolk, Norfolk"