ANOTHER WORLD - WINDOWS-95 and beyond.

<b>ANOTHER WORLD</b> - WINDOWS-95 and beyond.

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.