Photo equimpent for hardware web pics (Re: Technico (Re: TI

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Mon Apr 16 15:23:02 2001

On Monday, April 16, 2001, at 02:58 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>> It would be nearly two years before the PS/2 would introduce VGA and
>> it's
>> 256 color mode in the same resolution.
>
> That's what we used to use as an argument for why it was better to own
> an
> Amiga than a PC at home in 1986. The general response was, "so what;
> who

        As you can probably tell from the number of times I mention them, I
rather like Amiga's. I remember doing a side/side comparision between
Mean-18 and Jack Nicholas golf games on the PC and a similar game on the
Amiga (don't recall which one but we had it running on an A500 at the
time). This was in 1988 and there was absolutely no contest. Not only
were the graphics much better but the Amiga game allowed shots and stuff
that you couldn't do in the PC games. One of my all time favorite games
was 'Marble Madness'. It's too bad the Amiga stagnated as it did,
though the smaller developers did an awesome job trying to keep it
going. I miss my A3000.

        As for the PC, it has some nice hardware, but nothing I'd say was
revolutionary. It's weighted down too much by all the legacy stuff to
truly break new ground.

        Jeff
Received on Mon Apr 16 2001 - 15:23:02 BST