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Brad Carvey

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#186125From: Tim Krego, [pro.image]Aug 20, 1995 2:07 PM
>I did get him to go NT and get off of the Amiga platform, which was no easy task.< I think NewTek's support for Lightwave NT on Alpha versus the speed of the Amiga and the fact that Commodore went out of business made it easy for Free Range to go to NT. I can't see you getting credit for that. The Free Range, Foundation, Amblin, and etc. guys are loyal to Lightwave not the Amiga. They want the fastest hardware it runs on, since LW looks identical on NT why do they care if it isn't the Amiga?
#186440From: GREG TEEGARDENAug 22, 1995 12:35 AM
That is true. Many Amiga enthusiasts were distruat to discover that places like Amblin and Foundation were dumping their Amigas for PC's and Alphas. When shows like seaQuest and Babalyon 5 used Lightwave, many Amiga people thought that they used it because these shows liked using Amigas. Many of them thought that these facilities had 'sold out' to the PC community when they scraped their Amigas. The only reason these machines were used was because LightWave just happened to run in them. I had one guy ask me at siggraph what future the Amiga had at Amblin now that the 060 accelerators were shipping. I told him that it had none what so ever. He thought that was 'a real shame'. Some people cling to their Amigas until the very end. GT
#186515From: Ralph F. FrantzAug 22, 1995 10:48 AM
>> Some people cling to their Amigas until the very end. How true Greg. I have a friend with an Amiga and what he could do years ago with it was quite amazing at the time. When I bought my first PC (boy it seems so long ago) he couldn't stop with the "you should have bought an Amiga". Lately he has been kinda quiet. <g> Ralph
#186623From: Tim Krego, [pro.image]Aug 22, 1995 4:21 PM
>That is true. Many Amiga enthusiasts were distruat to discover that places like Amblin and Foundation were dumping their Amigas for PC's and Alphas.< I remember the first time I heard anything about Amblin, they had 40 Amigas. They can replace those with one 300MHz Alpha. >Some people cling to their Amigas until the very end.< Yes, I agree. Sadly I had to retire mine back in '94.
#186673From: GREG TEEGARDENAug 22, 1995 8:28 PM
—>I remember the first time I heard anything about Amblin, they had 40 Amigas. They can replace those with one 300MHz Alpha.<—- Yep, and now that there are about 50 of these machines online, you'd think that rendering times would have gone down….:-) GT
#186830From: Tim Krego, [pro.image]Aug 23, 1995 12:28 PM
>Yep, and now that there are about 50 of these machines online, you'd think that rendering times would have gone down.< Is that 50 Alphas?
#186972From: GREG TEEGARDENAug 24, 1995 12:10 AM
That would be 50 Alphas, although they are the not the new 300mhz one's but rather, the older 275's. Just goes to prove the theory that if the power is available, the user and the application will use it.
#187190From: James Coulter[Mindscape]Aug 25, 1995 2:38 AM
> Just goes to prove the theory that if the power is available, the user and the application will use it. < That reminds of the addage: "Work expands to fill the time allotted for it." — James — Choreo Motion —
#186665From: Tim Krego, [pro.image]Aug 22, 1995 7:46 PM
>That is true. Many Amiga enthusiasts were distruat to discover that places like Amblin and Foundation were dumping their Amigas for PC's and Alphas.< I remember the first time I heard anything about Amblin, they had 40 Amigas. They can replace those with one 300MHz Alpha. >Some people cling to their Amigas until the very end.< Yes, I agree. Sadly I had to retire mine back in '94.