second thoughts on buying a 3000UX
Adam Hill
hill at evax.arl.utexas.edu
Tue Mar 5 21:30:31 AEST 1991
In article <1229 at amix.commodore.com> ag at amix.commodore.com (Keith "Cheese Whiz" Gabryelski) writes:
>We are looking into using the blitter for operations that it is suited
>for. There is no reason for us to use the blitter in operations that
>would only run slower with it [`DUH' sound goes here].
HEY KEITH!!
I know what we need to show those SPARC-A/UX-AIX-Sequent people.
The perfect use of the blitter under X is:
64 color animated POINTERS!!!!!!
Imagine a 64 color 3D image of the object of your choice.
A Bill The Cat rotating in random directions, THWPTT!! 'ing you
when you click on it... Now if you could hook it into the Paula under
X you could have this nifty sound that goes like.......
Nahhhhh Never mind...
>--
>"[...] a POSIX implementation that | Keith Gabryelski
>returns errors for practially every| Amiga Unix Software Development
>operation is conformant (useless, | ag at amix.commodore.com
>but conformant)." -- Chris Torek| ...!cbmvax!amix!ag
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adam hill -- hill at evax.uta.edu
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And heard no human voices. Amiga... Multimedia NOW!
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