Re: Amiga
From alwaysasweety <alw...@ukonline.co.uk>
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· 28 Jun 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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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 there technology is way out of date.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....
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