Matrox and Amiga join up?

[Jon P. Inghram]

http://www.amiga.com/corporate/072400-matrox.shtml

Things just keep on getting stranger...

[Joel]

Cool! "and with what Matrox have up their sleeves" we will all benefit.

Joel

[Maggi]

and the Amiga SDK is optmized for use with G400 DH ...

[paulcs]

Is that "up their sleeves" line the first public acknowledgement that Matrox has anything up their sleeves? It certainly stood out.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[This message has been edited by paulcs (edited 27 July 2000).]

[Joel]

Just a quote from the article.

Joel

[merchant2112]

can they say any less to make me drool over what we dont know..... (g800 wise? or other product.)

[Buuri]

Amiga? What is Amiga? Should anyone in the 2000's care about this Amiga?

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[Maggi]

Let me guess, Buuri ... you are 20 years of age or younger ...

Some of us started computing in the 80s and everybody (that I know) that had an Amiga is more than just keen on that re-incarnation.

Besides that name one computer that has been discontinued for several years, but still has an active coding scene ...

Amiga kicks ass and I surely hope those guys keep what they promise !!!



Cheers,
Maggi

[dZeus]

Let me give a short definition of 'Amiga':

Amiga

- everyone is cool who either owned, programmed for, or used an Amiga

[Buuri]

Maggi,

I guess you missed that smiley in my post.. Actually I've had one myself.

You are wrong about Amiga kicking ass; it kicked ass against Atari ST and PCs at those days, but let me ask again, why would anyone care about that today? Its not like Amiga is producing new hardware any faster than Bitboys..

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[lindberg]

Amiga is still alive . I've still got my A500 at home with philips monitor and 512 kb extra ram, extra diskdrive . Those were the days . It's a shame they died out but in the 80's they really really ruled!

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My system:

• Athlon 700 MHz
• Majesty Processor cooler (sweet)
• 192 Mb Ram
• Asus K7V mb
• Matrox G400 (oc @ 150/200)
• wester 10.2Gb and seagate 6.5Gb (removable) hdd
• Aureal SQ1500 soundcard
• Logitech Force Feedback wheel (pretty cool)
• 300W atx case
• Dual Majesty Exhaust fans (sweet silence... )
• 100 Mb External ZipDrive

My Homepage

[Maggi]

Of course Isaw that smiley, Buuri ...

I just had to pick that up, because Amiga still kicks ass !

- try a reboot within twelve seconds
- try to launch your OS into 2MB RAM
- ShapeShifter rocks
- I even had a PC emulator letting me run Word for DOS or whatever that was called

Back then I made a 3D-Anim/Vista-Flight/Morphing movie (don't ask for those rendering times ... ) that was ~2 minutes long and I had it playing back in realtime from my built-in 340MB HD ...
(for those who still know about it: I used the DCTV video booster which reduced the data tremendously while giving very impressive quality output)

LOL

sigh ... good old days

Cheers,
Maggi

[RoGuE]

Yep, good days indeed.

I've still got my Amiga 1200 stashed away somewhere, not to mention my Amiga 500+, C64c, and Atari 2600 ECS games console.

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Commodore Amiga A1200HD
Motorola 680EC20 14MHz (not overclocked )
2MB Video RAM, Additional 16MB RAM,
Seagate 170MB 2.5" HDD

actually, I forgot my 68040 25MHz (overclocked to 40MHz) add-on board

[Zuofu]

Besides that name one computer that has been discontinued for several years, but still has an active coding scene ...

Apple IIGS

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[Maggi]

Thanx, Zuofu !

Didn't know there were more geeks out there ...