From: CRANK
To: For ibm PC fans
Subj: About Amigy
The text is an excerpt from one of the computer
newspapers written around 1993-94 (!)
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If you have already read the article "What is Amiga", you have already
probably managed to notice that all of this was most similar
to a phrase like “Vasya is a fool” (and Vasya can write the same thing).
It is well known that IBM has long been for Soviet dummiespresent
is an object of religious worship, and just to mention
Knowing this word of three striped letters usually leads them to
awe, and the mention of anything else makes them
to the point of violent insanity (which, in fact, was almost
didn't happen). A completely natural question arises: why?
It has long been possible to notice that they bring us from all over the world
far from the best (to put it mildly), and even morally
outdated equipment: where else can they buy something like PC/XT?
Naturally, only here or in China... Obviously, computer
XT or AT-286 type, instead of being thrown into a landfill,
are taken to us and sold to local teapots, which are worthless anyway
we haven't seen anything better. Production is being established at Soviet factories.
The number of "computers" like PS/1, which do not even have a RESET button,
than production consists of assembling from ready-made boards... And yet
devotion to this deity (or squalor?) reaches such chickens
ezov, like questions like “Is Dendy compatible with IBM?” or until
of "computers" like "search" (and men with posters "SEARCH
GAMES" on the radio market, who don’t even know what game they are looking for)
or “land” (the ones with screwdrivers forgotten in the case).
Now, just in case, let’s explain what the Amiga-600 is.
1-2 MB RAM, 32-bit Motorola-68000 processor, built-in
3.5" floppy drive (and all this incase the size of a BK-shku!), mouse,
connectors for connecting an external 5.25" drive, video monitor,
hard drive, modem, printer, etc.
Video controller capabilities: horizontal resolution:
320-640-1280 pixels, vertical: 256-512 pixels, supported
multi-plane graphics, hardware sprites and “soft” scrolling
ha of screen (and on IBM there is not even a “frame” interrupt). If you have
there is no money for a good monitor, you can at least connect a TV
(of course, 512 vertical dots won’t work on a TV, but
Most games don’t use this video mode anyway).
Number of DMA channels - 25 (on IBM - 8...)
About music: the music coprocessor hardware supports 4
8-bit voices, with virtually no music playback
takes up CPU time: digitized sounds
the coprocessor reads from the machine’s memory itself, using the mentioned
DMA channels. The sound quality is 2 - 3 times better than on COVOX
(which has 17 resistors) - we compared Amig's music with
the sound of the same melodies converted into IBM's Scream
Tracker. By the way, a few words about music editors. What
I hope everyone knows what Scream Tracker is, but not everyone knows it
They say that his music takes up about half of the computer time...
By the way, guess where Scream Trackera gets so much money?
languages? It’s not for nothing that it reads MOD files... (Althoughquite possible
which is in vain, because it does not support even half of the special effects it has
in Amig's ProTracker).
A few words about the instruction set of the i80286 and 68000 processors.
The first of them was made in the image and likeness of 8086, which in its
the queue, judging by the commands, was ripped off from the 8080 & Z-80. The last one
as you know, it is no good except for Caller ID. Let's explain
especially for those accustomed to the BC (DEC) command system:
CPU registers are unequal (i.e. 6 nested SOB loops
you can’t do it), auto-decremental, auto-incremental, indirect-in-
there are no dex or other addressing methods, no CLR commands (cleaning
register - XOR, and cells - for 2 commands)... (and also purely
subjective opinion: write the source operand after the operand
yes-receiver - a malicious perversion. However, it’s better to read the
the corresponding book, if you are not afraid that you will vomit). Co-system
mand of the same Amigobckoro processor 68000 (similar, but more powerful
processors 68020-68040 are found in cool machines like MACINTOSH,
SPARC, NEXT, etc.) is very similar to the bookmaker, but has a bunch of
additional commands, and is clearly much more efficient than some other
damn Intel 80286. Not surprisingly, in the demo
"Technological Death" on 8-MHz Amig the following video effects were made -
you, which cannot exist on 286/16MHz (born to crawl - to fly
cannot: run on WINDOWS 286 andsee for yourself).
And a few more words about operating systems. So cool
a thing like MS-DOS (WINDOWS on the 286 is generally out of the question-
it's slow, but OS/2 v2.1 works on at least 386), done
from the "operating system" CP/M-80(86) (if someone hasn't seen this
shit-80(86), explain: a program asking "A>_" and executing
command DIR, can be written in 5 minutes), and subdirectories, etc.
were invented back in UNIX in the 70s...
You could, of course, also tell us what MACINTOSH is,
NEXT, SPARC, etc., as well as what cool cars DEC makes
on an ALPHA processor with a clock frequency of 200 megahertz, but this
There's just no room. So draw your conclusions, gentlemen...
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everyone who did not interfere with us writing this newspaper (list of 5 billion
the person will come out in a separate file). Everyone who was offended by the article about
IBM, can call at any time of the year before and after midnight
Lefon 03...
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