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Re: Lightwave Minimum Requirements

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From: Wooly Mittens
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:36
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dukat@suba.com (Lawrence Wilson) wrote:
>
> Kjell Gudim (kjgudim) wrote:
> : Wooly Mittens wrote this in comp.sys.amiga.graphics:
> 
> : >>
> : >> What's the absolute minimum amount of RAM Lightwave 4.0 needs to run?
> : >>
> : >I've run LW 4.0 on an Amiga with 2 meg chip and 4 meg fast comfortably
> : >with the camera-framebuffer set to 1MB. Even then there's generaly
> : >0.5 megs leftover.
> 
> : :) Try doing that on the PC. I have tried it on a Pentium 60 with 24 Mb RAM
> : and the harddisk still spins at 10000 rpm :)
> 

Don't remind me, A friend bought a p133 and 16megs and other pc stuff
standard included in the amiga (like sound).
LW refuses to store or 16 color bitmaps in anything less than a
24 bit framebuffer.
We honestly tought LW was formatting the harddrive when we pressed
render.

Wooly Mittens.
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Subject: Re: Lightwave Minimum Requirements
Date: 18 Mar 1996 08:36:06 GMT
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