Re: Amiga

hiya folks ,

  don`t know if you know this but the amiga lives on
  it is being developed right now as a tv internet machine
  to work along side digital tv .. so it aint over yet for
  the old miggy !!!

  just one small point the amiga was a 32 bit machine in the
  end i had my 1200 in a tower running with 128 meg ram .
  a 16 meg graphics card a blizzard 1240 & several large
  hard drives .. lightwave and video toaster .. which i now use
  on my pc .. and i long for my amiga back .
  thanks for the memories about my amiga ...

  later

  steve

  www.stelogic.com



"Martin Atkins" <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> wrote in message
news:395...@news.vossnet.net...
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:43:05 +0100, alwaysasweety
> <alw...@ukonline.co.uk> posted:
> >
> >
> >Yorck Babinsky wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> > -- Amiga made a great machine for doing high detail animations.
> >> > Remember Babylon 5?  The 1st year's episodes of space animations were
> >> > done on a series of Amigas!
> >
> >the card that was used to incres the speed of the graphics chip was
called
> >the toaster, the program that used it was Light wave. the software still
> >exists for the PC and mac.
> >
> >the amega also had a full 16 bit OS (like windows) built onto a rom chip.
all
> >the games did was call up the componants they needed and run. if you took
you
> >time the thing vertualy never crashed but it needed alot of development
and
> >comidor went into the PC market which made the company go bust. since
then no
> >one has managed to bring them back and i doubt if they ever will make it
back
> >again. there technology is way out of date. the only thing that was
better is
> >there windows on a chip idea.... just think windows that would boot in
under
> >1 secons and never crash....
>
> Although there are a few strange things in what you have to say, you are
> mostly right.
>
> I'd still like to see a PC version of OS3.0 ... a disk-based version of
the
> ROM (512k) plus the contents of the Workbench, Extras, Fonts and Locale
> floppy (880k + 880k + 880k + 880k) and there you have it, an operating
> system in just over 3MB.... and not a bad one, either.
> Even the fatal crashing messages that Amiga's dish out are cool:
>
> .----------------------------------------------------------.
> |  Software Failure.  Press Left Mouse Button to Continue  |
> |           Guru Meditation #0AFDAEE3.32D333AF             |
> '----------------------------------------------------------'
>
> Yet again, wildly innaccurate. :)
>
> Unfortunately the Guru Meditation was ditched in 2.x in favour of the
barely
> more user-friendly error code and task code separated (that is, the part
> before and after the dot in a Guru Meditation number.
>
> Kind Regards,
> -Martin
> --
> Martin Atkins - Reply address is ROT13 encoded

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