>I am not an Amiga user yet, although I can tell you that you are mistaken
>about their graphics capabilities being behind.  The classic old examples of
>what Amigas can do in this arena is demonstrated when you watch Seaquest and
>Babylon 5 episodes.  All of the animations on those shows are done with 
Amigas
>connected to NuTek Video Toasters.
Were. No longer.
>
>But perhaps you are talking about ordinary old video resolution on the 
monitor
>at home.  I couldn't say.  Animation on a Pentium I understand is laughable
>compared to what ordinary old Amigas were doing 6-7 years ago.
>
>Then again, that's not my territory.
Obviously. Babylon 5's last two seasons were rendered on Lightwave 3D running
on mid spped pentiums as front ends with the rendering done on 166mhz DEC
ALPHA RISC based boxes. Some of the 2d FX like PPG fire are added on a couple
of Macintoshes, and the entire thing is connected via Novell Netware 4.11.
There are a few Amigas still connected to the LAN, but they're used almost
exclusively for pulling old objects and translating them to Lightwave.
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