BIG!! Amiga Press!
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WOW!!
Check out the August issue of "Computer Graphics World": Cover story:
"The Amiga: Is it Time You Took a Second Look?" A 6 page article – very
positive( I haven't finished it yet ) – NOT only Toaster praise, but
multimedia, video in gen. Yahoo.
Good news, I'll have to pick up a copy from the newstand…
-Jonathan
Cool!
Guess I'll have to go magazine shopping tommorrow 🙂
Bob Comer — Flying high and fast with my A1200HD'030 on Autopilot!
From Cheyenne, Wyoming U.S.A
Other Hot News!!!!!! Tonight Billy Idol was on the Tonight show. The stage
show is very multi media. It looked like he had 2 Toaster station setups (The
operators were on the stage with him, along with 4 guys with mini video cameras
that were having special effects pre-recorded effects as they followed billy
around. Jay even grabbed a camera!). IT WAS WILD!!!
………John
RAJH Studios
Hi Mike,
Indeed the CGW article was, for the most part, positive… BUT… it was filled
with several errors and incorrect assumptions, like the statement that Amiga
24bit graphics boards tend to run in the $1,000 range for the cheap solution.
Last time I checked retina boards could be had for $500 and the Opalvision main
board was down to $700.
I was also shocked to see the comment that the amiga could not capture video in
real time, which is exactly what the DPS PAR board can do. I was happy to see
mention of ASDG but there are two other top flight image manipulation companies
on the Amiga that were left out of the article and the info box on top Amiga
companies; Black Belt Systems and GVP. Further if you look in the vendor box
you will notice that Byte by Byte is listed!!!! What a joke!
It would have been nice to see some mention of the new software releases,
Imagine 3.0, Lightwave 3.0, Real 3D 2.0, and some add ons like Interchange Plus
3.0… But then I guess I am throwing too much at a writer who clearly was
trying to take an objective view of the machine.
All in all I was happy to finally see the Amiga featured in CGW, after reading
the issue I quickly sent my renewal form back.
BTW: did you read the article on the SGI reality Engine ? Incredible… Just
need a $100k….
🙂
<BTW: did you read the article on the SGI reality Engine ? Incredible… Just
need a $100k….>
I happened to see a reality engine at work at the Strickty Business Computer
show in Minneapolis last spring. Way Cool! The guy I talked to from SGI said
the engine was capable of something like 3 million floating point operations
per second. There some speed for you!
BTW – at that time he also said that the price was down to about $90k and he
expected it drop another $10k in the next 18 months.
RA> from SGI said the engine was capable of something like 3 million RA>
floating point operations per second. There some speed for you!
The 68040 does 3.5 million floating point operation per second.
The Vivid 24 card for the Amiga does 160 million floating point operations
per second, and costs about a tenth of the price you mentioned. There's
some speed for you!
Sam Yates – Montrose, Victoria, Australia. A1200HD
Internet: sam_yates@guru.apana.org.au