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From: jkrutz@meta.burner.com (Jamie Krutz) ()
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Subject: Re: CyberGraphX on Amiga (was: AlphaNT Modeler sluggishness)
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In article <199603080421.XAA06273@norden1.com> Tim Krego <tkrego@norden1.com> writes:
> At 04:38 PM 3/7/96 -0500, you wrote:
> >FYI CyberGraphX software runs on most of the cards so developers
> >only have to support its 16 and 24 bit extensions and their software will run
> >across multiple graphics cards.
>
> That may be good for diehards, but a little to late for me. Those enhanced
> graphics cards were needed 5 years ago. Plus the sheer quantity of products
> for the PC have lowered prices to were the Amiga hasn't been about to
> compete for almost as long.
The Intel clone products that interest me are not cheap or numerous (LW, 3D
Studio Max, Soft Image, PhotoShop, Fractal). Amiga products are generally less
expensive, not more. There are things you can do on both platforms that you
can't do as well on the other. Many people use several platforms together.
I'm sorry if info on CyberGraphX is not of use to some people but it is
certainly useful to others.
> We still have a 2000/VT4000 system at work for
CyberGraphX won't help the Toaster specifically because the Toaster is very
much tied to the Amiga graphics chipset. But if you run other paint/image
processing/drawing or business software CyberGraphX might be useful for you.
People with Amigas should know about CyberGraphX. There are some very
useful tools for the LW animator available on the Amiga that become much
more useful with CyberGraphX and your choice of graphics card(for example