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Where can I get an Amiga?
Judg3 asks
" I was just curious, I've seen all the talk on Amiga these days and did a little research. Looks to me like a fine system, and Id love to give it a try, but, I cant seem to find anyplace that sells em anymore... Know of a place I can look into buying one? "
> No flame here just to note yes both graphics and sound are better than a > Pentium anything PC. Especially if you are trying to do 3d rendering or > animation. At 7.5hz my 500 still does things that my pc or mac dream of
(Yes, I know this's a troll, but dammit, I can't stand non-objectiveness)
Don't get me wrong, I love Amigas, I have a souped-up 500 sitting in my bedroom that I'm preparing to either run DNS or a webserver off of, but I can say without a doubt that the graphics and sound are far below that of a new computer, any brand make or model. *Especially* in animation and 3d rendering. Lightwave on my Amiga takes hours to render a complex scene at 320x240... the same scene on my G3 can be rendered in Lightwave at 1024x768 in under 10 minutes.
The Amiga is great, but you have to face the facts that the hardware is *old*.
-- sudo.ca
Go to www.nationalamiga.com
They have techspecs on all the models, and many of the peripherals. They sell them out of Canada, but they have an automatic price converter built into their online catalogue so you can see right away what it'll cost you in US dollars.
-- sudo.ca
Why would I want to get an amiga?
You probably wouldn't. (At least not if you have to ask why - this goes for anything, not just computers... if you have to ask why, then you probably don't want one.) The only reason someone would want one nowadays is either Nostalgia, or for use with a Video Toaster.
Are they better for Sound/graphics?
At one time yes.. but not any more. My A3000 pales in comparison to my Deskpro 5100 (Pentium 100) even before I added the Voodoo3 card.
Can I hook them up to my TV esaier?
Yes - the default Amiga video modes run at the same scanrate as your TV. (In fact, you could plug a VCR/tuner into an Amiga monitor and watch TV, with a better quality picture than most consumer-brand TV sets.)
I don't mean to start any flame wars. I just want to know what an amiga can do my current dual pent.2 can't.
Run multiple screens at different resolutions on the same display simultaneously, or install a Video Toaster and do broadcast video switching/editing. Not too much else, except maybe run some old programs that were never ported to the PC.
go to http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html they have a list of the dealers who are still selling Amigas
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