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In <Dp7GC7.Hu8@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, pwm5k@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Patrick William Mackin) writes:

>What about a CD of effects for the Amiga!!?

Not everyone has a CD-ROM drive for the Amiga.  However, I've seen postings
of publishers making backgrounds, animations, sounds, MODs, etc. available
for Amiga multimedia use.

>And all the PC effects, could, I am sure, be done on an Amiga.
>I mean, Lightwave/Toaster does Z axis effects, if you're
>doubting the POSSIBILITY they can be done on an Amiga.

Z axis effects are possible, due to the additional hardware on the
NewTek Video Toaster.  However, the Amiga, especially some low 
powered systems, have difficulty moving full screen images in
the Z axis.  It should be noted that a number of demos show some
remarkable capabilities, but at the expense of multitasking and
typically "illegal", but certainly innovative programming.

>Not only did I not know the pee cees were capable of such
>multimedia prowess as in PC100, but they certainly cannot do it
>as easily as the Amiga.  I mean, simple things like dragging
>down a screen, are things that are MUCH too fast for the PC to
>do ever!

Certainly there are some limitations to the PC hardware.  For
example, its quiet difficult to get a high-powered PC to perform
vertical and horizontal scrolls.  Contrast this to a normally
aspirated 14 MHz 68020 based A1200, which can do this with
ease.  The platforms have their strengths and weaknesses.

>What happened to Amiga development!!??

Nothing at the moment, as we are still preparing for the release
of the PC versions.  Once that is done, we will be looking into
development on other platforms, including the possibility
of developing for the proposed Power Amiga.  We shall see.



Regards,

John Chang
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