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- From: nilo@login.dknet.dk (Nicolai Thilo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: New Amiga A1300
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 23:45:07 GMT
- Organization: Customer at DKnet
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- In article <4cbggm$64e@turtle.apana.org.au>, James McArthur (jamesm@turtle.apana.org.au) wrote:
-
- >If you are just trying to make a games machine, then just put a CPU, two
- >card slots and a dirt cheap gfx card in a box with keyboard and AmigaOS;
- >coz lets face it, if new users are coming to the Amiga for games, then
- >graphics have to better then the PC, and sound has to be better then the
- >PC and it needs to be cheaper then the PC..
-
- How would you do that with hardware equal to or worse than the PC?
- What do you suggest as the "dirt cheap gfx card"? This card would
- have to support 15kHz screenmodes. Where is the sound going to come
- from? What hardware will control the keyboard and joysticks? What
- media will hold the software, and what hardware will read the media?
-
- A fast CPU and some cheap SVGA card alone ain't going to make the
- Amiga much better than the PC, since the PC has already had this (and
- more) for years. We need something the PC *doesn't* yet have, like a
- powerful general purpose DSP in the lowest common denominator.
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