100% closed is not the issue. COMPETITION is. Maybe Sony would be as bad as MS (experience says they won't be), but you KNOW they're looking for a finacial return too. It's obvious that Sony wants a way out, they'd LOVE to run a new system on their laptops. Sometimes, just being different is enough - they don't have to be saints too.
"But I do know that a lot of lower end production companies still use Amigas for their video editing." err, I don't think so. You could put together a PC based edit system for 1500 on a PC or 2000 on a Mac that would crucify ANY Amiga Toaster - no-one in business uses such ancient HW these days. I work in TV, the last AMiga I saw in use was in 1996, and that was in a room full of Macs (it was a fully tricked out 4000 running Toaster, looked pretty shabby next to an Avid).
hang on, he said "a couple of Gigs spread across 5 HDs" BFD, how much does a 20 Gig HD cost 2day, 25 bucks? 10 megs of RAM eh? what's that, twenty cents worth? and the awesone number crunching power of a 50 Mhz 040 (you could pull a 66Mhz one out of a $30 Mac). GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD. And is this even an Amiga anymore, what with all these mods? Show the deceased some respect, will ya?
but if you want advanced custom hardware, someone's gotta pay for it. A small company could barely manage a custom mobo these days, let alone a CPU. Maybe you could take the DSP route but I doubt it, people ARE trying, but going nowhere fast. With something like the PS2, you have a chance to create a new platform that happens to have been designed from scratch with co-processing in mind and high bandwidth hardware. It looks like a chance to build something new and different, powered by Sony's cash and burning desire to compete with MS properly. There won't be a new Amiga, but there might be a new platform free of MS and Intel.
Well, the marketing was a little strange, but it was really a hundred different things at once. First, the Amiga was never marketed to business (would have been pointless anyway), secondly Amiga CD-32 - a spectacular waste of money that went up against Sega and lost, thirdly incredibly shitty build quality, fourthly no progressive scan GFX until the 030 machines meant WP and office stuff was extremely headache inducing and lastly, the Commodore management were idiots and thieves who blew all their cash on private jets and crap when they should have been investing. The real shame of it was the all of the software developers' fantastic work was wasted, some moved on and thrived, some didn't.
"Load the thing down with geforce's galore, and a bunch of fast DSP's for sound." if this is what you're after, why not look at Linux on the PS2? There's some co-pro going on there, and at least that machine has SOME kind of future.
well, 68k is sort of still alive, in the form of the Palm in your pocket. yes folks, Dragonball EZ is part of the family indeed. I think Moto also has a line called "Coldfire" which is 68K related. I agree that there's no point to emulating something as wonderful as the Amiga. Moving the Amiga to PPC might have helped 10 years ago, but that's when they would have had to start thinking about it, not now. When was it that PowerPC debuted? 1992? If the Amiga wants to live again (and why should it?), they would have to plan on using a NEW architecture, not even x86 - which is in it's death throes as we speak. By the time a new Amiga COULD arrive, we'll be knee deep in IA64, x86-64, PowerPC G5, UltraSPARC III and possibly even CELL. Maybe a smart move would be to exploit CELL to build a truly powerful custom architecture that could show us what multitasking is all about again.
WTF are you talking about? He's making points about how fast UAE runs on a couple of Powermacs, then you're asking if you'd be able to do the same with Basilisk, which emus 68K only. He's only saying that he feels UAE would be an unknown quantity under XP - he's obviously an Amiga-loving Mac user (as are many). How and why would he be running Basilisk on a Powermac? (I know, via VPC) and FYI, you CAN get a 68K emu for the Powermac to supplant Apple's JIT emu - some think it runs pre-system 7 better. And WTF do you think the Windows 16bit subsystem does?
absolutely. Even more so would be the way that containers are transported around the world by land and sea. Have you ever been to a modern container port? It's mind-bending.
you haven't got an El Capitan Powermac, have you? The IDE connector is easily accesible as are the RAM slots, PCI slots and the Airport slot. Putting drives in is the funniest part. 1 screw is all it takes, pop out the little cages, screw the drives into the cage and pop it back in. Takes about 5 minutes to put a new drive in an El Capitan.
I don't much like the look of this Panasonic set-up, looks like a novelty rather than a productivity boost. Try http://www.panoramtech.com/ for a better solution...
yep, I knew all that - DDC is a standard, and a highly useful one at that. DXGA is a meaningless acronym deliberately designed to confuse consumers. "A DXGA screen? wow! that's even better than XGA! this screen must be better than YOUR crappy XGA one..." Heffe, what is a plethora?
some of Colorsync's profile conversion tools CAN be useful, but software colur calibration is a complete no-go I'm afraid. In TV/film work, we always make sure that it's turned off. If you're gonna calibrate your screen, it better be done properly by feeding a known signal from a TPG in and sampling the faceplate IN THE CORRECT AMBIENT LIGHT CONDITIONS ONLY. Grade 1 video monitors are adjusted like this, and on a weekly basis in our facility. They are also never allowed to be turned off and always correctly illuminated.
interesting problem. I use a Sony G400, which is a 19" FD trinitron, which I run at 1280x960x75 from the Radeon in my G4. When I first installed this monitor, I was required by the manual to fit a tiny "Mac Adaptor" (looks like a slim gender bender, but isn't) that came with the monitor, despite never having to do that before for any other VGA / Mac combination and with no explanation from Sony. Incidentally, the "recommended" setting for my monitor is 1280x1024x85 which doesn't fit the 4:3 aspect screen at all. Anyone able to explain this? I just don't get it at all. I use a Sony F500R on my G4 at work which runs at a breathtaking 1600x1200x100. And it was HALF the price of an 18" LCD when I bought it. Nice.
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100% closed is not the issue. COMPETITION is. Maybe Sony would be as bad as MS (experience says they won't be), but you KNOW they're looking for a finacial return too. It's obvious that Sony wants a way out, they'd LOVE to run a new system on their laptops. Sometimes, just being different is enough - they don't have to be saints too.
"But I do know that a lot of lower end production companies still use Amigas for their video editing." err, I don't think so. You could put together a PC based edit system for 1500 on a PC or 2000 on a Mac that would crucify ANY Amiga Toaster - no-one in business uses such ancient HW these days. I work in TV, the last AMiga I saw in use was in 1996, and that was in a room full of Macs (it was a fully tricked out 4000 running Toaster, looked pretty shabby next to an Avid).
hang on, he said "a couple of Gigs spread across 5 HDs" BFD, how much does a 20 Gig HD cost 2day, 25 bucks? 10 megs of RAM eh? what's that, twenty cents worth? and the awesone number crunching power of a 50 Mhz 040 (you could pull a 66Mhz one out of a $30 Mac). GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD. And is this even an Amiga anymore, what with all these mods? Show the deceased some respect, will ya?
but if you want advanced custom hardware, someone's gotta pay for it. A small company could barely manage a custom mobo these days, let alone a CPU. Maybe you could take the DSP route but I doubt it, people ARE trying, but going nowhere fast. With something like the PS2, you have a chance to create a new platform that happens to have been designed from scratch with co-processing in mind and high bandwidth hardware. It looks like a chance to build something new and different, powered by Sony's cash and burning desire to compete with MS properly. There won't be a new Amiga, but there might be a new platform free of MS and Intel.
Well, the marketing was a little strange, but it was really a hundred different things at once. First, the Amiga was never marketed to business (would have been pointless anyway), secondly Amiga CD-32 - a spectacular waste of money that went up against Sega and lost, thirdly incredibly shitty build quality, fourthly no progressive scan GFX until the 030 machines meant WP and office stuff was extremely headache inducing and lastly, the Commodore management were idiots and thieves who blew all their cash on private jets and crap when they should have been investing. The real shame of it was the all of the software developers' fantastic work was wasted, some moved on and thrived, some didn't.
you paid a HUNDRED BUCKS for an AMIGA 1200? are you insane? that thing only cost 400 when it was new, and that was 10 years ago. WOW.
"Load the thing down with geforce's galore, and a bunch of fast DSP's for sound." if this is what you're after, why not look at Linux on the PS2? There's some co-pro going on there, and at least that machine has SOME kind of future.
well, 68k is sort of still alive, in the form of the Palm in your pocket. yes folks, Dragonball EZ is part of the family indeed. I think Moto also has a line called "Coldfire" which is 68K related. I agree that there's no point to emulating something as wonderful as the Amiga. Moving the Amiga to PPC might have helped 10 years ago, but that's when they would have had to start thinking about it, not now. When was it that PowerPC debuted? 1992? If the Amiga wants to live again (and why should it?), they would have to plan on using a NEW architecture, not even x86 - which is in it's death throes as we speak. By the time a new Amiga COULD arrive, we'll be knee deep in IA64, x86-64, PowerPC G5, UltraSPARC III and possibly even CELL. Maybe a smart move would be to exploit CELL to build a truly powerful custom architecture that could show us what multitasking is all about again.
WTF are you talking about? He's making points about how fast UAE runs on a couple of Powermacs, then you're asking if you'd be able to do the same with Basilisk, which emus 68K only. He's only saying that he feels UAE would be an unknown quantity under XP - he's obviously an Amiga-loving Mac user (as are many). How and why would he be running Basilisk on a Powermac? (I know, via VPC) and FYI, you CAN get a 68K emu for the Powermac to supplant Apple's JIT emu - some think it runs pre-system 7 better. And WTF do you think the Windows 16bit subsystem does?
apparently you can't read. where he writes "(on a 120Mhz 604)" what do YOU suppose he means? mutt
absolutely. Even more so would be the way that containers are transported around the world by land and sea. Have you ever been to a modern container port? It's mind-bending.
yeah? so? it's nice to know that even geeks posess a trace of humanity.
Reagan could wisecrack too, didn't sop him being a chowderhead though did it?
a Prince Albert.
got one, have you? I have, and it's the best LCD I've used. Better than the Samsung 24" WS, and the 17" SGI too.
you haven't got an El Capitan Powermac, have you? The IDE connector is easily accesible as are the RAM slots, PCI slots and the Airport slot. Putting drives in is the funniest part. 1 screw is all it takes, pop out the little cages, screw the drives into the cage and pop it back in. Takes about 5 minutes to put a new drive in an El Capitan.
I don't much like the look of this Panasonic set-up, looks like a novelty rather than a productivity boost. Try http://www.panoramtech.com/ for a better solution...
if you got a big kick out of that, I wonder what you'd make of www.panoram.com. Put your credit card away before you visit the site though...
I've done the three-monitor thing in Graphic Simulations F/A 18 Hornet for YEARS on the Mac. No idea if it works under Windows or not.
nope, it's 1920x1080. ATSC covers many picture dimensions and frame rates, but HD is 1920x1080 alright.
yep, I knew all that - DDC is a standard, and a highly useful one at that. DXGA is a meaningless acronym deliberately designed to confuse consumers. "A DXGA screen? wow! that's even better than XGA! this screen must be better than YOUR crappy XGA one..." Heffe, what is a plethora?
some of Colorsync's profile conversion tools CAN be useful, but software colur calibration is a complete no-go I'm afraid. In TV/film work, we always make sure that it's turned off. If you're gonna calibrate your screen, it better be done properly by feeding a known signal from a TPG in and sampling the faceplate IN THE CORRECT AMBIENT LIGHT CONDITIONS ONLY. Grade 1 video monitors are adjusted like this, and on a weekly basis in our facility. They are also never allowed to be turned off and always correctly illuminated.
are you an idiot savant, or just an idiot? Your post makes no sense whatever. DXGA is NOT a standard. DDC is...
interesting problem. I use a Sony G400, which is a 19" FD trinitron, which I run at 1280x960x75 from the Radeon in my G4. When I first installed this monitor, I was required by the manual to fit a tiny "Mac Adaptor" (looks like a slim gender bender, but isn't) that came with the monitor, despite never having to do that before for any other VGA / Mac combination and with no explanation from Sony. Incidentally, the "recommended" setting for my monitor is 1280x1024x85 which doesn't fit the 4:3 aspect screen at all. Anyone able to explain this? I just don't get it at all. I use a Sony F500R on my G4 at work which runs at a breathtaking 1600x1200x100. And it was HALF the price of an 18" LCD when I bought it. Nice.
look, it was that or paperwork, OK? :-]