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dlfrsilver · 09 March 2006, 15:54

@dr Marillion : About the NASA thing, the engineers had to fight against their bosses
because they wanted to use windows NT PC to perform the tasks.

The nasa guy explain that they used A2000/4000 turbo boosted, and said that these
machines are calculating with no delays or timing errors. 680X0 are superior and more
accurate than intel X86 processors as they said. And easier to program ^^.

(another quite near information about this, you know the french military plane, called Mirage 2000 ? His onboard calculators (both of them) are using 2 PCB board with each a 68020 processor running at 25 Mhz. just because the 68k is a very accurate processor ^^. this info is btw still classified secret defense today LOL).

Well just to finish, happy or not, the amiga has the soft and hardware tools to drive
Musical Instruments Digital Interface. Danny elfman, Chris Huelsbeck, Richard Joseph,
etc.... I just point the result. Why did they choose amiga for composing instead of atari ? try to guess why ^^.

Picked on wikipedia :

Sampling
The Amiga was one of the first computers for which one could buy cheap accessories for sound sampling and video digitization. This meant that not only could the Amiga produce computer-generated images and sound, but users could input "real" images and sound for editing, composition, and use in computer games.

Sound
The original sound chip supported four real-time sound channels (2 of them earmarked for the left speaker and 2 for the right) with 8 bits' resolution for each channel. Software such as Octamed used software mixing to increase this to 8 or more virtual channels, and astute composers could mix two hardware channels to achieve 9 bits' resolution, or all four to achieve 10 bits' resolution, which approaches the limitations of human hearing. In the PC/Amiga rivalry, the quality of the Amiga's sound output, and the fact that the hardware was ubiquitous and easily addressed by software, was the standout feature of Amiga hardware that the PC lagged behind for years.

09 March 2006, 15:54	#83
dlfrsilver CaptainM68K-SPS France Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Melun nearby Paris/France Age: 46 Posts: 10,484	@dr Marillion : About the NASA thing, the engineers had to fight against their bosses because they wanted to use windows NT PC to perform the tasks. The nasa guy explain that they used A2000/4000 turbo boosted, and said that these machines are calculating with no delays or timing errors. 680X0 are superior and more accurate than intel X86 processors as they said. And easier to program ^^. (another quite near information about this, you know the french military plane, called Mirage 2000 ? His onboard calculators (both of them) are using 2 PCB board with each a 68020 processor running at 25 Mhz. just because the 68k is a very accurate processor ^^. this info is btw still classified secret defense today LOL). Well just to finish, happy or not, the amiga has the soft and hardware tools to drive Musical Instruments Digital Interface. Danny elfman, Chris Huelsbeck, Richard Joseph, etc.... I just point the result. Why did they choose amiga for composing instead of atari ? try to guess why ^^. Picked on wikipedia : Sampling The Amiga was one of the first computers for which one could buy cheap accessories for sound sampling and video digitization. This meant that not only could the Amiga produce computer-generated images and sound, but users could input "real" images and sound for editing, composition, and use in computer games. Sound The original sound chip supported four real-time sound channels (2 of them earmarked for the left speaker and 2 for the right) with 8 bits' resolution for each channel. Software such as Octamed used software mixing to increase this to 8 or more virtual channels, and astute composers could mix two hardware channels to achieve 9 bits' resolution, or all four to achieve 10 bits' resolution, which approaches the limitations of human hearing. In the PC/Amiga rivalry, the quality of the Amiga's sound output, and the fact that the hardware was ubiquitous and easily addressed by software, was the standout feature of Amiga hardware that the PC lagged behind for years. Last edited by dlfrsilver; 09 March 2006 at 16:40.