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From: cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga news (genlock & lots more, *long* but juicy)
Message-ID: <10578@sun.uucp>
Date: Wed, 17-Dec-86 19:23:36 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 17 19:23:36 1986
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Summary: Have you seen them?

In article <2351@ncrcae.UUCP>, wingard@ncrcae.UUCP (Steve Wingard) writes:
.> Ahhh... Sorry, George, but about TWO MONTHS AGO Xanth Computers displayed a
.> demo VERY SIMILAR in design and execution... a set of four mirrored balls
.> moving in an eggbeater pattern around each other over a scrolling "floor"
.> with the Atari logo as a pattern and beneath a scrolling "ceiling" with
.> a checkerboard pattern.  Everything is reflected properly in the balls
.> (in fact, the only way you see the scrolling checkerboard is as a reflection
.> on the tops of the balls) and the shadows are all drawn properly.  It was
.> shown at a San Diego Atari computer festival and I'm sure Neil Harris at
.> Atari could tell you more about it.
.> 
.> So before you go off making CHEAP SHOTS about who's "faking" whom...

I have seen some of the Atari stuff too, (and one on the Ample two gee whiz)
And the Amiga beats them on resolution only. That is that the Amiga version
has 640 X 400 lines and 4096 colors on the screen. The Atari ones I have
seen from Xanth look to be more monochromatic although that could be
only the particular one I saw. What has been firmly established is that
any graphics hardware can be made to look good when there is lots of
memory to shove frames at it. 

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