CompuServe Messages

A few minor points. What what the price of the PC after you purchased AdutoDesk Animator & 3D Studio? What was the price of the Amiga after Imagine (lightwave comes with the Toaster). Dollars should be a *bit* more disparate now. 🙂 Really an unfair comparison. Sticking an accelerator in an A2000 is like sticking a 486 card in an 8086/80286 machine. Better to try an A300 or A4000. I'm curious about prices now. The 486 should be just over 3k with all the stuff you mentioned (higher with an EISA/MCA bus) while the A2000 would be closer to $2500. Both plus software. Window's software is better, by far, in general applications than Amiga software. Still, (and I have a 486 as well as a few Amigas), unless you're a professional writer, you'll never use the bazillion features on WP6 or the new WOrd. For personal use, as well as most small business use, most Amiga WPs do fine. SuperBase on an Amiga can compete with the best on the PC. I know, that's what I do professionally and have beaten out bids (that are based on PERFORMANCE not price) against multiuser Mac, PC and Unix systems with my Amiga setup. Corporate and government work. Amiga spreadsheets suck. No two ways about it. (Sorry, guys. 🙂 Autodesk & 3D Studio are VERY nice. I still prefer Lightwave and the new Lightwave (which I *have* used) can render faster (as longs as the reflections are kept down) WITH shadows on an A4000 than 3D Studio can on a 33 MHz 486. Better quality pix if you require reflection, refraction & true shadows. Still, this'll probably change with the next incarnation of 3D Studio. They're so close in speed it's a negligable point. Animation on Lightwave is (in my opinion) superior, by far. Quality output on a Toaster is much easier than on a PC. What're you using to get 30 fps 640x480x256 on your PC. My 486 w/8 Mb RAM, superVGA can only get that speed in a 1/4 window (DOS, not Windows). My A1200 (14 MHz system) blows it away. Finally, if you use an A1200 or A4000 (AGA chipset) you'll find that they can match the PC on hires (800x600x256+) on speed. Beat it if you want 800x600x256,000. To each their own. (I have 'em both…and then some!) 🙂 -Chas