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- From: fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Juergen "Rally" Fischer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 05:05:35 GMT
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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- UNREGISTERED VERSION (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) wrote:
-
- : >Well, the chipset was designed for games. As you said, the OS was added,
- : >which IMHO made it to what Amiga is.
- : Well, then why was Jay Miner caled The Father of the Amiga when he only
- : worked on the chipset and not on the OS at all and why was the chipset 90% of
- : what you about the Amiga for the first few years and still 70% until the last
-
- somehow programmers was that fascinated by chipset that they didn't deal
- with the OS (me too). But now OS games get more common and we all wonder
- why we didn't do it before: action gaming under multitasking environment.
- running games from hd by just copying the gamedisk(s) to hd.
-
- there are flamings of chipset fanatics with OS fanatics how much can be
- done without direkt chipset pokes, and IMHO the truth is that all
- todays games can just be done OS-conform (i.e. would also run on
- non-chipset-amigas) while the 2d-action games of A500 times would
- need to make direct use of copper (but OS legal all the rest).
-
- so while the chipsets specs aren't amazing any more, Amiga keeps
- #1 at its qualities: efficient use of hardware, realtimish response,
- clean buffered animations, autoconfig etc.
-
- : year? And why is the Amiga called the son of the Atari 800 when the OS's of the
- : two have absolutely no relation at all?
-
- yeah the XL, imho more interesting than the C64. C= had best salaries
- with its most crap computer...
-
- so what exactly is your point ? The Amiga is only chips, autoconfig etc.
- doesn't care ?
-
- : >Today, chipset blitter
- : beeing factors slower than S3 blitters, Also was never fully updated since
-
- yep, but an Amiga could contain VGA chipsets, so what...
-
- : original design over ten years ago.
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