CompuServe Thread

Matt, I know plenty of people producing "top-notch four color ad layouts and presentations on the Amiga" — And if I do say so myself, it's all seems to be very easy. -John

Matt, Have you tried doing color separations and ad presentations on an Amiga? I'd be interested in hearing your reactions to the process of creating such items on currently available Amiga software. Darron

Try working on a 68020 or 68030 based Amiga with a Viking A2000 (1008×800) display and then tell me whether the Amiga OS is slow. You're comparing a 7 Mhz A500 (a $700 investment?) to two 20 MHz machines ( >> $700), which is going to lead to the wrong conclusions about the capability of the A2500 or GVP-30 A2000.

Matt, you're outta my territory on this one. I've read plenty which seems to indicate that you can do more in video terms on an Amiga with 1/4 the hardware and cost it takes to do it on a Mac, but I don't have any experience with this so I just can't say. All I know is that I find the MAC's OS incredibly clumsy and slow (great for first-time users, but then you waste all that time wading through and waiting for all the icon software hard-wired into the OS to do something you could do in a snap with a half-line CLI command, once you've learned it), and the Amiga's wonderful because you can run a number of chores in the background (like disk copying, telecommunicating, etc.) and *still* have full availability of the computer for whatever else you want to use it for. Also, to continue to use the hackneyed auto analogies, comparing an A500 to a MACIIcx is like comparing a basic Honda Civic to a top-of-the-line Audi; compare Amiga's "Acura Legend" with Macintosh's "5000" for a more realistic comparison: an A2000 with a 68030 card, 4 megs of memory, an 80 meg 11ms access-time SCSI hard disk with a flickerfixer and multisync monitor will go *lots* further than Macintosh's best, and still at about a full half the cost. And there's lots of video software out there, all of which is a breeze to sync with a television's video signal due to the flexibility of handling interlace that comes built-in on the Amiga. But again, I'm talking theory here now; I don't need any of the stuff for what I do, I'm a text-based person — Thoreau living in a Long Island suburb of hardware, if you will. <grin> sw

Matt- I'll bet you get a HUGE response to this message. Lots of people here have used all three computers, and feel the same way about the Ami that you do about your Mac. Anyway… –> "The Amiga's OS is CLUMSY and SLOW" Do your Mac and IBM have hard drives? Does your amiga? Ever think the difference in speed may be due to the difference in floppy vs hard drives? Have you ever tried to run a Mac from floppies? You will burn one of those silly clocks with the rotating hands into the surface of your monitor while waiting for ANYTHING to happen. –> "The lack of a line based OS on the Macintosh was proven irrelevant long ago" You have obviously been brainwashed by the Mac do-it-my-way-or-you-don'tneed-to-do-it-at-all philosophy. Ever try to print an encapsulated Postscript file on a Macintosh when you don't own the application which created it? Ever created a PS file on another computer and attempted to print it on your LaserWriter? On the amiga, it is simple: copy filename to PRT: I have NEVER found a way to do this on a Mac. Douglas T.