Mac vs Amiga ?
26-Dec-90 16:37:03
Sb: #10735-Mac vs Amiga ?
Fm: Black Belt Systems 76004,1771
To: Steve Hall 72617,1766
On the contrary – you can play 30 fps, full-screen, full color video while
playing 4 simultaneous sounds channels out of an Amiga using various fast
HD systems. This has been repeatedly demonstrated at the last couple of
AmiExpo shows.
You might want to talk to the Digital Creations people about this… it was
their booth I saw this techo-feat. :^)
By full-color, we're talking full NTSC video, several million colors. :^)
And yes, I'm sure of my facts – these people make a video product that is a
direct competitor of a video product we make; it has one advantage, and
it's the one we're talking about here… it's slightly faster than ours.
Ours make better images, but is only capable of about 20 fps, full-bore
animation from disk.
In memory, we can achieve 30 (or even 60) fps with ease, using the Amiga's
"copper" co-processor to flip video frame addresses w/o having to move the
image data.
The Mac has a long way to go to catch up in the video area, as far as I can
tell.
Ben
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