Re: Amiga
From Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz>
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· 29 Jun 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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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 there technology is way out of date.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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