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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Announcements and Press Releases => Topic started by: kwoodall on April 01, 2003, 07:32:14 PM
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Nova Design, Inc., the leaders in graphics software for the Amiga, announced and demonstrated brand new products to support their ImageFX and Aladdin 4D product lines. Designed to take advantage of the wide availability of inexpensive Atari 2600 systems, these modules will allow ImageFX and Aladdin 4D to accelerate their rendering speeds by an incredibly modest amount!
Atari 2600 Render Stations
Atari 2600 systems, in various models, are available for next to nothing these days. You can even buy modern revivals of this classic console for less than twenty dollars American. Combine this affordability with the latest concepts of processor overclocking and you can accelerate these bargain systems up to 30% faster than they were originally clocked!
Amiga Connectivity
The ImageFX and Aladdin 4D cartridges come with cables that allow you to string up to 500 Atari 2600 systems in parallel to your Amiga system. All told you can achieve speeds nearly approaching that of the original Phase 5 Amiga PowerPC accelerator card – but at thrift store prices! Literally!
Only Nova Design, Inc. brings the power of a ridiculously meager render farm to your Amiga for no more than the cost of change found in your sofa.
Module Pricing
With the wide availability of recycled ET game cartridges, we’ve been able to transfer our ImageFX and Aladdin 4D render modules to these cartridges for mere pocket change. Again, we do not exaggerate! This saving allows you to purchase these moderate accelerators for only $6.66 per cartridge.
Due to the nature of this offer you can only buy these on eBay or your local Thrift Store – which will be convenient since you’ll be there to buy the Atari 2600s as well.
For no more information visit us on the Internet at http://www.novadesign.com
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ROFLMAO
:lol:
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COOL! Where can I get this?!?! ;-) :-P :-D :-)
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hahahahahhhah :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
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Now this is what I call foward retro reverse thinking! Look into the past to create the future by thinking outside the beige box and creating the next paradigm!
Bravo Kermit!! :-D
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What's the date today? :-D
Coder
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What's the date today?
Yes! Thank you coder for pointing this out! Today is a major day that will go down in the history of computing thanks to Nova Design! I heard a rumor that modules for Timex/Sinclairs and Tanda Coco are in the works! :-o This is just what Amiga Inc need to get them back on the map!!
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Poster: Coder Date: 2003/4/1 19:54:41
What's the date today?
Coder
Today I made someone believe he got kicked out of his apartment.
He was glad when he found out that the letter was false. ;-)
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Do we get a reduction on a new house to store all this? :-D
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umm i just realised i joined here officialy 1 year ago today, i just can't remember if that was an april fool or not ;-) j/k
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Congratulations with your jubilee :pint:
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Sounds like an april fools thing to mee... Lets take this... 500units * ((Atari2600 bargin on Ebay = 1) + 6.66$ per accelerator unit) = 3830$ hmm... sounds like a loss if you compare it to a PPC board like in the post (wich by the way doesn't say if it's an 603 running at 160Mhz or an 604 running at 233Mhz). Lets just for fun say that this was to be true then what about the power consumption of 500 Atari2600's??? Would eat up the cost of any PPC boards in no time.
Still funny though... almost got me at the beginning. :-D
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No cheap jokes on april 1st !!!
[color=FF0000]x303[/color] :-D :-D :-D
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This one is too easy.
I mean atari2600 my Casio clock got more computingpower than that.
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Nova Design, Inc., the leaders in graphics software for the Amiga
sounded weird in the 1st place.
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Gosh! I am so happy now that I can go to my in-law's house and actually do something productive on a 20 year ago machine :-P . Better yet, I best go down to the local DAV store and get one quick before they run out... :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
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And in other news;
Tank A (http://www.msnbc.com/c/0/91/897/10x7/twip_2002_0704_05.jpg)
Tank B (http://www.milanet.ie/~andrew/pc/tank.jpg)
Secret rock thrower's gnipohsotohp device deployed by tank crew!