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Article #726Re: Amiga Power (Was RE: Babylon 5)
From: Marc van Kempen
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:34
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:34
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mnemonic@netcom.com (Rev Lebaredian) writes: > If you are interested in using the Amiga for 3D animation, take a look >at DMIs Vivid 24 board. Fully populated(four TI34020s), DMI claims it >can render 100,000 gourard shaded polygons per second and give you >160 mflops of raw power. This is compared to 70 mflops on a $200,000 >SGI. A fully populated Vivid with a amiga 3000 and an 040 board(for some >mips) comes in at about $12,000. Not to mention that it also gives >2048x2048x24(1280x1024x24 non-interlaced). Has anyone realy seen these boards? They sell MPEG-boards too. Never seen those either. Please stop spreading those "I've heard about a Zilion Phong Shaded Z-Buffered Polygones per second for just $9.95" - rumours. Give me facts. Marc.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!rtech!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!rw8.urc.tue.nl!wmbfmk From: wmbfmk@rw8.urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen) Newsgroups: comp.graphics.animation Subject: Re: Amiga Power (Was RE: Babylon 5) Message-ID: <wmbfmk.728184868@rw8.urc.tue.nl> Date: 28 Jan 93 01:34:28 GMT References: <1993Jan22.142655.15030@city.cs> <1993Jan24.133854.21680@netcom.com> Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl Reply-To: wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl Lines: 23