mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu (Evan Mitchell) (08/09/89)
The Bay Area Computer Currents (a free mag here in the Bay Area) reviewed an animation program for VGA compatibles made by the AutoCad people. They seem to think a $299.00 program + VGA compatible = a much better animation system than the amiga (or MAC II) will ever have. They throw around a lot of buzzwords like price/performance and additional hardware needed to justify the superior performance of the VGA system. They even print a few untruths, "Animator! compared favorably with the Amiga, which is limited to 64 colors 4096 when using the same resolution. (320 X 200) I guess you can't animate in HAM.... Anyway the article took great strides to show the superiority of the VGA system. Methinks they doth protest to much... -Evan _______________________________________________________________________________ | Evan Jay Mitchell EECS/ERL Industrial Liaison Program | | mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu University of California at Berkeley | | Phone: (415) 643-6687 | | "Think, it ain't illegal...yet!" - George Clinton | |_____________________________________________________________________________|
kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) (08/12/89)
In article <30478@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu (Evan Mitchell) writes: >The Bay Area Computer Currents (a free mag here in the Bay Area) reviewed >an animation program for VGA compatibles made by the AutoCad people. They [...] >in HAM.... Anyway the article took great strides to show the superiority of >the VGA system. > >Methinks they doth protest to much... Interesting. AutoCad recently bought GenericCad. One of our technologists is a GenericCad betatester. He also is an Amiga fan. When asked about developing GenericCad for the Amiga, the factory replied whith the statement : "The Amiga is too slow for Cad applications." (Really!) We have been in touch with the rep, explaining that this statement is obviously incorrect & invited him to call Commodore for information about the Amiga. I would also like to do a demo for the rep, but wish someone better qualified would take up the task. ======================================================= Kent Polk - Southwest Research Institute {cs.utexas.edu, gatech!petro sun!texsun}!swrinde!kent kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu ------------------------------------------------------- "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing" =======================================================