From: alumni106@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Max Sterling)
Subject: Re: Types of computers...
Organization: Camosun College
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:35:28 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.184243.18094@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, wai@mackinac.ecn.purdue.edu (Bennett Kyson) writes:
>  In article <jpark.05am@guild.socal.com> jpark@guild.socal.com (Jin Park) writes:

> 	I, on the other hand, am stubbornly (and maybe stupidly) sticking to my 
> 	good old, inexpandable 486, and I am ready to get my hand on any good 
> 	video-editing soft/hard-wares for my 486 for the purpose of animation 
> 	creation, clip editing, subtitle, etc. I have my mind on the Matrox 
> 	Studio (by Matrox Electronic Sys.)... but hell, that's $14,000! Maybe 
> 	next time.  I have had a look on the Video Blaster (by Creative Lab). 
> 	Only one little problem... no output option (unless, of course, if I 
> 	get the over-priced genlock...) and it does not offer a full-screen 
> 	display option (and ONLY 8-bit sound!). No thanks for the time being. 
> 	I have already been searching rather fruitlessly for the last three 
> 	months (a disencouraging note other PC users...). 

HAHAHAHHAHAHA! Is THAT the best you can do with a 486? How PATHETIC! :-) 
I can EASILY top that just with my A500! If I need a genlock, all I have 
to do is stick my A520 RF modulator in the RGB port and away we go! If I 
need to do professional video work, all I need to do is buy an A500 
tower and get a 24-bit colour board, of which there are too many to 
count right now, and more on the way. There's also shitloads of 
animation programs for the Amiga out there, but commercial AND PD. The 
most expensive one I know about is about $149 Canadian for a 
paint/animate program (DPaint IV), and about $800 Canadian for a ray 
tracer (Caligari 2). Of course, those are optional, since the 240bit 
colour boards ALL come with their own animation packages. You want 
output to video? No problem. The Amiga has it built in, and always has, 
since the A1000 were first released. It's NICE to have a computer that 
uses the NTSC/PAL standards for its video (Of course, you can switch to 
either video mode regardless of WHERE your Amiga was made if you have 
the 1 Meg Agnus chip). Of course, to do the SAME stuff that YOU'D like 
to do, it would cost me no more than $4000 Canadian, including all 
taxes. Not bad for a computer that you can get for $400 Canadian NEW at 
K-Mart now, is it? :-) Mata ne.

                                                   -=]> Max <[=-

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