SoundTrack: DJ_Z/LAZER/12.07.98/14.56.
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(R) Ze Pagan / PGC / BD
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In DEJA VU # 05 I gave a small advertisement for
new printing edition PC Amiga - Amiga Rulez. Passed for three
month, but received only one application :((((
Honestly, I did not expect such passivity. Really really nobody
cares this wonderful machine? Although, if
remember what country we live in: the country's nihilists
poheristov, Communists ... That is not surprising. But I still
I would like to hope that such a situation has arisen due to
lack of material. Well log, well Amiga Rulez - Mr. and co ..?
And then! That this is the only full-fledged magazine, devoted
to Amiga computer here in Russia! Inside you'll find a lot of
new owners and Amiga, and for those who still intends to buy. I
took it upon myself to publish some material from this
magazine, I believe that Lone Wolf (author of the magazine)
will not mind ...
Ze Pagan / PGC / BD
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... Have you recently purchased or just AMIGA
contemplates buying a computer. But
you really want to know what lies ahead,
What surprises (pleasant or not) prepared for you AMIGA. Read
this article and many will fall into place ...
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(C) Mad Maxx
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About Windows'95 and not only
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Gentlemen! I write from what can no longer remain silent.
Pent up, boiling and ready break out, that is happening now.
At each corner screaming about the new "multitasking", "true
32-bit" system Windows'95. Ugh! Allow at least a little
open your eyes, curtained our computer propaganda. Not have to
be psychic to see that all this propaganda is directed by
computer monopolies, seeking not only to capture the market,
but are themselves the minds of users to then free to extort
from them money. And the poor users even can not think that
exists in the world yet anything other than this insatiable
monster called the IBM PC! But let's order, we consider all
without any extra emotion.
Have you ever thought about
why dinosaurs became extinct? One of the hypotheses
lies in the fact that their evolution is at an impasse.
Increase in body weight of giant dinosaur has led to an
increase in skeletal mass and more massive skeleton needed more
powerful muscles, and this in turn led to even higher mass
body. A vicious circle! It's nothing to you Sound familiar?
Increasingly "heaped" programs and systems require more
resources, there are more powerful computers, but underneath
them comes more resource-intensive software. "Upgrade, please
upgrade!" However, paraphrasing Krylov, "A Word is still there!
Yes, yes, all the familiar MS Word for
Windows. That knew how to version 2.0? Recruit and
print text. That is able to version 7.0 for
Windows'95? Right! The same thing! (Any graphic "bells and
whistles" do not count, all equally specialized programs are
doing better, and Word graphics are usually no do not use). But
Word 2.0 great worked on the 386, and a new Word'u even
486 DX2/66 with 8Mb closely! Yes there Word!
System itself Windows'95 8Mb memory already
enough! I suggest that you conduct such an experiment, if
possible. In his system Windows'95 run System Monitor (System
Monitor). Way run like this: Start -> Programs -> Assessories
-> System Tools -> System Monitor. The monitor, select a chart
showing the amount of used memory (Allocated Memory). Well,
impressive! Even in "pure", when you first start the employment
system are from 10 up to 20Mb of memory, and regardless of
whether how much memory the machine has. I
tested it on different machines: 486DX4/100
with 32Mb, 486DX4/100 with 12Mb, 486DX2/66 with 16Mb
memory and the Pentium-90 with 64Mb. On systems
with 12 and 16Mb RAM, all were employed, and many
virtual memory, how much was lacking to
required 20Mb. And the system selects
the best memory - RAM, of course, leaving the share of
applications slower virtual memory. And here is another
interesting feature Windows'95: after leaving the
Application resources can not be restored -
system itself does not clean! It is noticeable after
run multiple applications, by the end of the day
the system is running slower and slower. And when working with
graphics it is already apparent at once, is to launch Adobe
Photoshop, to work in it, then get out, run QuarkXPress, exit,
and then again run Photoshop. Everything! Work already
almost impossible! And so I have many times a day to restart
computer. And this is the Pentium-90 with 64Mb of memory! So
what is it? Impasse? Yes, if the tandem Intel + Microsoft
fundamentally not reconsider its concept of PC-compatible
computers. But they are not collected. They
advantageous to increase the endless clutter of megahertz and
megabytes, and at the same time to pull a load of the notorious
640 KB of system memory. For what? For sovmestomosti with the
old software! It's like a new high-speed locomotive is kept in
reserve parovoy boiler and all other prichindaly locomotive
-And suddenly have to work at an angle!
So where is the exit? But he is! Only when our Sov-medullary
congestion is very hard to overcome the inertia of thinking and
look at things soberly. Take a break, gentlemen, from the
eternal "fucking" with software and hardware and take a look
around! The world's still Plenty of other good and different
platforms, except IBM PC! On which of them can take a look? On
the Macintosh? Indeed, the very good car, especially for
graphics and design, only the price for it and it was too soft
Bites! What else? SGI? But this machine multimillionaires. Not
everyone, even counting a large, studio allows himself have a
work station, and even buying, put back in twice as much money
for the software. And what else? AND here reveals an old,
well-forgotten, but can someone forget the words carefully -
AMIGA. Yes, yes, the one that for most computer inhabitants
either generally unknown or associated with some kind of toy, a
set-top box, something like "Dandy".
Good "telepristavochka" I tell you!
With a 50MHz MC68030 processor, 8Mb of memory and
1Gb hard drive, I can absolutely not straining to make her what
I do is not easy and very straining on the P90 with 64Mb RAM
1.6Gb hard drive! Here is an example - one of my working day.
Once had to do a promotional mock-up to color magazine size
215x x300mm resolution of 300dpi (Who does not know -
I will explain: 300 dots per inch, and the page size value of
the graphic file reaches approximately 2200h3300 dots (pixels)
or 25Mb on disk in a format TIFF). So, making this layout took
me 12 hours of work time. I've used it all sorts of special
effects like multi-layer overlay, collage and
etc., which provides us with Adobe Photoshop. At the same time
came a moment When Photoshop 3.05 (optimized
Windows'95) began issuing a message that
he lacks the physical memory (RAM) (as in
we in fact 64Mb). After many hours of fuss
with any drivers, installations etc.
had to install a previous versiyu3.04. By evening, tired and
angry, I came home, taking with him a CD with the original
slides, and did all the houses on the AMIGA FOR TWO HR in the
program ImageFX 2.1. At the same time I worked as a virtual
memory manager VMM 3.2, the physical memory was 10Mb (2Mb
ship + 8Mb fast), we used all the physical memory, and about,
100Mb of virtual memory.
Well, how are you such an example? Immediately foresee the
argument of the average user home IBM'ki: "But the game on
CD-ROM ...". Yes, games on CD-ROM for IBM became very popular
with us due to the Chinese punching. And the animations in 256
colors beautiful ... But, my dear IBM'schik how you react to
the fact that on a CD-AMIGA games All animations are in 16
million colors (Mode HAM8), and this is the standard! In this
case, there is no "slowdown", but smooth color transitions,
sound. Speaking of sound. I'm with my friends tested AMIGA
sound in comparison to the PC, equipped with a Gravis
Ultrasound boards and AWE 32. Sound is output to a stereo
amplifier output power of 100 watts per channel speakers with
the same capacity. All agreed that AMIGA sounds better. The
second quality was the price of Gravis Ultrasound, which can be
was to compare the sound with the included AMIGA high pass
filter. It is worth mentioning about television and video. This
area of computer graphics for a long time was considered a
monopoly only AMIGA. In Pitersburg many studios have worked and
are working on AMIGA. But the new studio, a tribute to fashion
or under the influence of pressure companies selling
PC, become very expensive and poorly performing PC-station.
However, reviews of famous masters of computer graphics,
nowhere is there anything better for the animation, than Deluxe
Paint 5.0 for AMIGA. And design TV in real time - and titles
Background - generally can not be done on anything
except for AMIGA. What is calculated on an IBM PC for hours,
and then one frame is recorded on video, on AMIGA done within
20 minutes, and it takes time purely on creativity, and then in
the real vremvni written on the video or go directly to
ether. A three-dimensional graphics? There is nothing
better Amigovskogo Real 3D! And no 3d-studio with him can not
compare! The calculation of the passage of light rays
(raytracing) can receive a fantastic realism in its image,
almost indistinguishable from photos. Devotees of the Lord IBM
'Macintosh may argue: "We have a good publishing system ..."
Yes, the system QuarkXPress really good, and Here's Adobe
PageMaker 6.0 under W'95 - utter shit! But what would you say
about such publishing system, which would combine
in all the properties of QuarkXPress, CorelDraw,
Adobe Illustrator, would support a system-wide macro language
that allows you to communicate with other programs, and would
have been infinitely expandable through plug-ins?
But on the AMIGA such a system is called
PageStream, and its different versions are available
already in 1988! At first I was afraid to use it, but then
realized all of its charm and simply "caught" them!
Here is my brief opinion on the comparison of the two
platforms. I make no claim to the title programmer, I'm just a
user. AND My opinion about the AMIGA - this view is the user.
Programmer in my place would be write about multitasking on
Autoconfig - - Protocol on the free use of the processor
registers, the uphill task from the processor I / O other AMIGA
delights from his point of view. I have already decided for
themselves what kind of computer to select and you? Decided to
be "like everyone else", ie give preference agonizing platform?
After IBM compatible computers die on
world of their sales are down (except for Russia). would not
have been left with nothing ... And if you still choose to IBM,
well! Go to your locomotive, rummage shovel in coal, and I,
AMIGA-user, will fly over you in the comfort of an airplane and
laugh!
vit inside this procedure, complete the construction of Huffman
coding tree. As a result, we would have the slowest the world's
compression algorithm, since the construction H-tree - it's too
much work and to make its handling of each character is unwise.
Fortunately, there is a way to modify an existing H-tree so
that the display processing of a new symbol.
