Hello dear readers
our magazine!
Due to the fact that the quantity
There is not enough information about the Amiga,
we decided to enlighten your minds
stories about this little one
miracle - AMIGA! Today we will tell you
presenting an article from the series
"Past and Present of
of the future - AMIGA computers! "
AMIGA'S PAST.
In 1982 in the town
Los Gatos (California) four
they decided to shake desperate people
world, creating something completely amazing
superior, something that is far superior
would go to any existing
that moment computer systems.
Let us remember that by this time it was already
IBM platforms were developed and
Macintosh computers and started them
mass release. Except 7 million
which it was decided to spend on
for self-financing, the developers
Chikov had significant experience in
designing as equipment,
and software:
one of them was Jay Miner -
developer of special chips
for personal computers,
the other - RJ Mikel - was
famous programmer of the company
"Williams"; Dave Morse and Carl
Sesenres were also professional -
cash in your business. Initially
their project was called Hi-Toro,
before it was decided to change
name to a simpler and
laconic - AMIGA (intranslation
from Spanish - "girlfriend").
The basis was chosen
the best (at that time) pro-
Processor M68000 from Motorola.
However, the Amiga would not be an Amiga,
if only that were the end of it.
The developers set their
goal to create a personal
computer with powerful graphics and
sound, so they decided
unload the processor as much as possible
so that he is busy
the basic logic of program operation,
and all input/output (i.e. the same
graphics and sound) was suspended on a special
cialized microcircuits that
capable of producing all the necessary
operations are much faster than
processor! Let us note in passing that in
in almost all modern
personnel, with the exception of Amiga,
poor processor takes everything
work for yourself... Figuratively possible
say that if IBM/PC pro-
the tsessor is a man - an orchestra, then
in the Amiga the processor is the conductor in
orchestra. This is where they come from
pussies those crazy megahertz,
required in order to
show a little something or
lose! Single-process machines
the weed system reminds me
some kind of moronic factory where
the director himself rushes from the machine
to the machine. For all attempts
draw attention to the absurdity
such a situation should be uniformly
natural answer: "our next
the director will be runningfaster ! "
For Amiga processor speed
not an indicator of the speed of the machine itself
tires. When you ask people
who know a lot about PC, about the car on
what some programs show them,
then the answer is something like this:
"This machine has at least 1bMB
RAM and at least bbMHz.
But the computer presented by him
has 1MB of RAM and clock speed
7MHz! This miracle was made possible
Amiga coprocessors, which
the difficulties sometimes exceed oneself
processor, otherwise they were there a long time ago
would be distributed on all computers
terah. The question is, what can they do?
new (32-bit) Amigas with often
that 14, 25, 40 and 60 megahertz?
At the initial development stage
boots no coprocessors, drill-
chucked into specialized micro-
schemes, from the developers, of course,
there wasn't. Original Amiga
was a jumble
interconnected printed circuits
boards that occupied several tables.
Each coprocessor consisted of slightly
perhaps from thousands of ordinary microcircuits
normal integration. And this is a monster
slowly came to life...
To cover the main activity,
due to reasons of secrecy,
it was possible to develop several types
joysticks are absolutely incredible
designs. Even the abstract name
AMIGA, not some real thing there
"TX 82/32", helped the company hide
your secret familyclasses. Same
tactics were used to call
research of the coprocessors themselves. They will receive
whether the name is AGNUS, PORTIA and DAPHNE.
Great professionals, having heard these
names, shrugged. If only we knew
They are what is hiding behind all this!
The result of this attitude
I didn’t have to wait long.
The Amiga amazes with its thoughtful
ness. It seems the developers
managed to imagine in advance
imagine all possible future non-
ease of use and eliminate them
at the very beginning stage.
The main thing in development is the idea
multitasking, which is always
was considered the prerogative of computers
completely different class than
Amiga. This idea formed the basis
operating system and hardware
Amiga parts. It has always been believed that
"plant" multitasking applications
on a "single-tasking" computer -
absurd. It will turn out as they say
English, "skeleton in the closet", having
the habit of falling out of there at the very
inopportune moment.
In 1983, they crawled across the States
rumors about a "gaming supercomputer"
named Lorraine (the first Amiga was
named after the president's wife
Hi-Toro company). And in the same year
all coprocessors were collapsed into
specialized microcircuits.
However, it is time to adopt a strategic
solutions for the architecture of the new
I haven't passed the computer yet. Author
the famous intuition interfaceRJ Mikel insisted that the future
the computer should be as
cheap, while others
wanted to get the most powerful
a car, even if it’s not a cheap one.
Jay Miner insisted on having
in the system of the maximum possible
number of expansion slots,
where can I connect the ground?
additional devices.
Jay Miner's acquaintance Ron Nicol-
a dream gave him the idea of a blitter
(a device that dramatically increases
speed of working with graphics, more
more offloading the processor). Jay
also came up with a graphics mode
US (Hold AND Modifi - hold and
change), which allowed a sharp increase
limit the number of reproduced colors
com at the same time on the display.
New ideas poured out of the blue
abundance...
However, time passed. In the end
those same 7 million have dried up
dollars that were available
developers and it was decided for now
take your brainchild to the sharks
computer industry...
AMIGA RULEZ!!
How many computers are there in the world?
so many opinions.
AMIGA.....
Some people don't understand this word.
warms the soul, but for some it is unthinkable
infuriates. Everyone who needs it, understood, for
I’ll decipher the ones who are too convoluted:
warms the soul of the intelligent and reasonable -
to a new person (Amizhnik), but anger
causes the dull iBM's
user). If you relate to
secondclass, then scratch this one
drive and don't torture your kebarda
convulsively hitting the head
her. This was a short introduction
in which you can immediately understand
our attitude towards these two
computers. I apologize for
incorrect expression (PC somehow
it’s inappropriate to call it a computer).
These various kinds of attacks
caused by stupid attacks from pisishniks
to this little miracle called
AMIGA language. Moreover, these riders
based on moronic writing
logic. Namely, some Vasya
I heard that on AMIGA - DOOM
occupies 8 meters and compares with
the length of the same DOOM on his
hemp, starts somewhere right away
write letters saying that AMIGA-
shit (God forgive me for
this expression), without even looking at
this same DOOM on AMIGA. But
he (Vasya) is deeply mistaken in
your opinion. And all because of my
stupid African thinking, they say
the more the better. What if
Vasya thought more about why
DOOM in short, then, moving and squirming
us, he would have thought that in
AMIGE has and what PC doesn't.
But no, just AGA (in the sense
coprocessors) from the wretched iBM.
And that is precisely what lies in them
70% of the power of the Amiga. After all, I myself
the processor works at relatively
small frequency 7-66 MHz, but it
no more is needed, because he answered
only looks forward tocalculations, and input,
output, graphics, music
coprocessors do it. When
show the capabilities of the Amiga
specialists working for IBM,
and ask about their opinion about
memory capacity and frequency
processor, then no one gives
less than 16 MB RAM and 66 MHz though,
the car he demonstrated,
has only a 16-bit organization
tion, 7 MHz frequency and 1 MB RAM
(AMIGA 1000, AMIGA 500/500+).
Dashing huh?
And what's coolest is that
AMIGA works with video equipment on
professional level. Starting from
monitor if you don't currently have one
moment of funds to buy for your
"miracle of technology" monitor, IBM guy
will put his stump on the shelf and
will work hard for more than one day,
to buy this one for yourself
monitor, and the lucky owner
AMIGA will connect it without any
problems for any TV-like
apparatus. And working with linear
editing in real time! Here
food for thought for you: to
do it on PC for 5 seconds. mileage
captions on some background
the pussy screen will need about
125 pictures, but this is not
Spectrum screens, and screens
one of which takes at least
1 meter! And in the end we got
dit (minimum!!!) 125 meters,
and this, excuse me, is part 1/6
decent hard drive. And what's the most
interesting, what for "shitty"
AMIGA doesn't need onemeters
on disk. Since she's everything
superimposes and displays in real
time.
Another news from the region
graphics, upon hearing which, some
comrades who are strongly attached to their
stumps, you will want to throw them away
throw them in a landfill and have one for yourself
Amiga. It's only about the smart ones
coders who were simply brainwashed
all sorts of Bill Gates and the like
new The point is that everything
you've probably seen films like
ROBOCOP, BABYLON 5, TOTAL RECAL.
So, all the effects in these
films made on
AMIGA 4000. What's the news?
Even I myself, having read in a magazine
MULTIMEDIA N1'1996, was in the state
Ianiya knockdown.
But that's not all the charm
AMIGA. Take, for example, herself
operating system. The poor pussy guy is sitting
about 1 minute, waiting for it
the firebox will heat up. Let's look at
amizhnik - he’s right after
inclusions gets into AMIGA OS.
Others will say it's bad because
that you can't change the operating room
system. Yes, let them rejoice
because you can download some
any other system, and it will take
this is approximately 4 seconds.
Some will say: "...so it is
probably some TR-DOS...",
a - fig, and an example of the above -
WORCKBENCH, which in its technical
not inferior to the technical characteristics
famous windows (WINDOWS'95)
on iBM PC.
What kind ofAmiga sound....
It's just a thrill, despite the fact that
the music card is there
initially, and you don't have to go
around the market and think what SOUND
BLASTER buy, more about it in
1982 thought the great Jay
Miner is the creator of AMIGA. And if
are you professional?
music, then you have indulgences here too -
you just need to spend $30 on
MIDI interface, and in pussy it’s
will cost about $500.
Do you feel the difference? And even
pisishniks, having heard the Amiga, admit,
that its sound is much better
pissed off.
You say: “Why, on her
there is practically no SOFTWARE." And this
also a misconception, because
software for Amiga
There is, and it’s not very sour.
For example, the Amiga has long had
the same Quake about which
any pisishnik raves, and looks
it's much better on the Amiga than
on PC (no notorious squares
when scaling). And this one is worth it
all the fancy software is very
cheap: for example here in the city
Krivoy Rog, burn one disc
on AMIGA it costs only one hryvnia.
And the biggest program takes
14 discs. For example, multimedia
SCALA package (installation),
takes up 5 disks!
After all this chatter, many
will run to find out where it can be found
buy. And you can buy it, there were
would be grannies.
That's all for today.
INwe will continue in the next issues
this topic.
PART TWO
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IBM THE SHIT CALCULATION
Constant disputes between pisishniks about
that PC is better than AMIGA, they forced me
MAX sit down at the keyboard and hammer
this little text.
I won’t talk about hardware now
words, although better than Amiga hardware
no (not counting MAC and Silicon
Graphix). It's about simple things
user, iBM/PC user, stupidity
some of them just me
amazes. Take at least a magazine
KM-inform N9'96. In it you can
read about some funny
cases from which all our
the editors were just driving around
semi. I won't be lazy and hit them
everything is completely unchanged.
Compaq is seriously considering
problem with changing the "Press" command
Any Key" to the command "Press Return
Key"("Press the Return key") due to
numerous calls to users
lei who ask where
there is a key "Any" ("Any").
Caller to the company's support point
AST, tried to explain that it is very
it's hard to work with the mouse because
anti-dust coating. At the end
in the end it turned out that
he took anti-dust coating
plastic bag containing
packed mouse.
Another user called and
asked why they couldn’t read it
old floppy disks. It turns out
executing a commandLABEL "label",
he inserted floppy disks into the printing press
typewriter and printed the label.
Another user was asked
send copies of bad ones
floppy disks In two weeks to the company
photocopies of floppy disks arrived.
At the technical support point
DELL company was advised to the user
insert the failed floppy disk and close
door. On the phone you could hear
the user stood up and, having crossed the entire
room, closed the door.
Another DELL user
called and said that he
kebarda doesn't work. Then
it turned out that he washed her in
water and soap.
To the technical support point
DELL received a call from a user
guy who shouted and waved
arms and legs, because he
the computer called him "INVALID".
It turned out he just didn't put it in
disk, and the computer told him,
supposedly a technical fault.
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Well, that's all for now. In the next issue we
Let's continue these awesome stories.
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Max Destroyer
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