| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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I didn't read every detail, but there is a somewhat positive article in BYTE magazine on graphics. The article reviewed PCs, MACs, & Amigas in that order and said essentially that that order was from worst to best. The only misleading/wrong thing was a comment about Amiga multitasking being a "kind of multitasking" relating it to the fact that there are multiple chips working simultaneously. I couldn't help but wonder if this was the remains of the famous special graphics issue/art contest that was rumored to be "cancelled" due to excess Amiga picture contributions and meager PC/MAC contributions. There were a few nice pictures, but no obvious credits. And the picture on the cover was some new box, not a computer graphic. The author's name was Robinson, so it couldn't be all bad... ;-} Dave
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| 2507.1 | COOKIE::WITHERS | If you play it, say it | Fri Aug 18 1989 16:20 | 1 | |
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| 2507.2 | Sort of a cover | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Fri Aug 18 1989 17:27 | 23 |
Re: .0 >I couldn't help but wonder if this was the remains of the famous special >graphics issue/art contest that was rumored to be "cancelled" due to excess >Amiga picture contributions and meager PC/MAC contributions. It was the special graphics issue. >There were a few nice pictures, but no obvious credits. And the picture >on the cover was some new box, not a computer graphic. The Amiga cover was "in there." For these special issues, Byte just pretends that the middle of the magazine is a separate magazine unto itself. It has its own cover, its own table of contents, and they renumber the pages starting a 1. First time I came across this, I thought that the magazine hadn't been glued together right since I noticed page 20 was in the center of the magazine. There was an Amiga graphic as the fake magazines inside cover. It wasn't very good: the Amiga graphics that have been used as covers of AmigaWorld or Amiga Transactor are much better. I guess that even poor Amiga graphics look good to people use to Mac IIs and 35 mz 80386 machines. :-) | |||||
| 2507.3 | April? | STAR::ROBINSON | Fri Aug 18 1989 18:03 | 3 | |
I'd guess this was the April issue. I read them in the ZK Library
and not neccessarily when they first come out.
Dave
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