From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A40000 in stores by October 7
Date: 3 Oct 1992 07:39:34 GMT
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
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In article <92277.023946MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> Norman St. John Polevaulter <MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Hah. The Infinite Graphics chipset only goes up to aleph-null colors.
>I can say with full confidence this is ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY, ABSOLUTE
>GARBAGE compared to the SWARAGA (Super Whizbang Awesome Really Advanced
>Graphics Adapter) cards shipping in the latest 89886 PC's. Those go up
>to aleph-ONE colors! A full order of reality higher than the pitiful infinity

Yeah, but all that reality is wasted on a PC.
It makes one want to find something that hits you over the head with a little
less realism :)

>It makes me sick Commodore even attempts to market this tripe.

Hey bub, be glad Cmdre's even attempting to market this tripe.
Remember what happened in Nov. '93 after they released their AGOG chipset
but didn't have any marketing staff left except the same lonely VP-dude?
Utter disaster.

>>              2.  Infinite resolution.
>Phooey. Does the Amiga 40000 have four-dimensional graphics (horizontal,
>vertical, depth, AND extending into parallel universes!) like the NeXT

Oh please, let's not even get into the NeXT tesseract (or out of it, depending
on which way it's object-oriented dimensional-overloading is facing).
The low-end just has that big screen.  The high-end costs 3-5x what this
machine costs.  You can add a hyperdimensional board from NewerTex....

>>              3.  Infinite bit sound.
>You should hear the Rolling-Roland SOUNDMONGER card shipped with my friend's
>89886. It can swamp the electromagnetic spectrum of an entire star system!

I've heard it.  It doesn't compare with our Infinite bit sound mods.  That
Roland is doing PCM which doesn't compare with the direct-brain-access of
the Amiga's infinite bit sound (+6bit volume!).

>But the Silicon Graphics Tartan-Plaid uses ANTIMATTER for power and cooling.
>Sure, you have to be REALLY careful not to drop it, but boy can that thing
>support the add-on peripherals, like petabyte hard drives, holodecks, and
>the electricity grids for entire nations!

Well, sure, but we've always wanted a real Silicon Graphics Tartan-Plaid.
We just didn't have the PROFITS of the electricity companies for several
entire nations!

>processing. It's supposed to be really cool.

It better be, considering the hardware it has to run on.
I just can't stand those built-to-average-spec machines that don't have the
required cooling surfaces.  Just because you have to buy a small asteroid
to own one of these things with the appropriate cooling surfaces doesn't
mean it shouldn't be done!  I mean, think about how we're all getting
cooked by these things anyway, what with all the stray microwave radiation
leaking out of them.

>Like I said, the IEG doesn't support four-dimensional graphics. Worthless.

four-dimensional graphics display technology is EXPENSIVE!  You're much better
off with NTSC screens, because otherwise you're losing your biggest markets!

Besides, the genetic alterations needed to view these new displays have yet to
be approved by the FDA for general consumers.

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David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
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