G.DYER@SU-SCORE.ARPA (Landon Dyer) (11/30/85)
I do like the Amig*'s graphics; the Amig* is flashy and flexible, and is everything I'd want in an Atari 800. No doubt there will be demo wars. Clearly the Amig* can blow the ST out of the water with flashy graphics, and if the people at Amig* are going to do incredible demos for the next two months, then we know where they're at. The Amig* has traded flashy graphics for I/O bandwidth. Remember what people used to say about the Mac, before Hyperdrive? How are you going to attach a fast hard disk to the Amig* when it is doing all that video DMA? The Atari bouncing ball demo was written in about a week by Jim Eisenstein. He wrote a kind of "ball blit" in assembly. He had to count cycles. HORRORS! He did all the development ON the ST, with a hard disk. Where was the Amig* bouncing ball written? Note, also, that the consumer does not have to count cycles to watch the bouncing ball. I strongly suspect that the ST can at least /come close/ to the Amig*'s graphics. How close is "close enough" for an assembler, or a database manager, or a C compiler? Granted, the ST will probably lose big when you play Hemmorhoids in Space. How often do you do that? I expect to have production OS ROMs under my christmas tree. And maybe a blit chip, soldered on top of my 68000 .... -Landon [The views expressed above do not reflect the views of Atari Corp., do not consitute any form of advertisement, and are soley the opinions of the author. In other words, this ain't comin' from the company....] -------
ravi@eneevax.UUCP (Ravi Kulkarni) (12/01/85)
In article <12163429226.16.G.DYER@SU-SCORE.ARPA> G.DYER@SU-SCORE.ARPA (Landon Dyer) writes: > >I expect to have production OS ROMs under my christmas tree. And >maybe a blit chip, soldered on top of my 68000 .... > Could you elaborate a little on the blit chip soldered on top of your 68000? Some of us netters who have upgraded our ST's to 1 meg are not averse to doing a little soldering. -ravi -- ARPA: eneevax!ravi@maryland UUCP: [seismo,allegra]!umcp-cs!eneevax!ravi
tucker@ccvaxa.UUCP (12/02/85)
> >I expect to have production OS ROMs under my christmas tree. And >maybe a blit chip, soldered on top of my 68000 .... > Before you get too carried away, you might look into the graphics processor Motorola is making. Its supposed to be a 68000 with bit-blit capabilities added (i.e. built in). Last I heard they were trying to get it out real-soon-now. Tim Tucker tucker@gswd-vms.ARPA ..ucbvax!ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!tucker