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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 19:33:35 GMT
- Organization: Internet Online Services
- Message-ID: <1757.6654T1228T2747@gramercy.ios.com>
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-
- >: What sucks++ is that AT is not *capable* to make innovative
- >: custom chips (they can say it's not possible, but I know that
- >: every console producer makes custom chips). So, being not
- >: capable to make them, the PowerAmiga is destined to be another
- >: PC clone, with just a different CPU
- >Get real. Why do you think AT could produce something better
- >than what's being produced by companies specialized in
- >making GFX-Cards ?
-
- Well considering that they bought the computer that started all that one should
- hope so. Hey, M2 was made inpart by some of the same people who made the Amiga
- (not even the main designer at that).
-
- >: It seems that AT said << *everything* must be done with the OS,
- >: direct hardware programming will not be allowed anymore >>
- >With PPC and a _HOT_ PCI Gfx-card why would you want to bang
- >the hardware ? The OS would make it unnecessary with a
- >suitable Game API.
- Hah. Especially if it had a copper. Also look how good the newest Saturn games
- are once they started bashing the hardware directly.
-
- >: If AT wants this shit from PowerAmiga, then IMHO the *last*
- >: Amiga will be the 680x0 and AGA based ones. The PowerAmiga
- >: will be a PC with just another CPU.
- Exactly!
- >No, It will run AmigaOS. Don't you see that the OS is the ONLY
- >advantage the Amiga has today! It lacks in all other
- >departments!
- Not entirely true, plus they need to make a new chipset not PPC+AGA!
-
- >: The A1000/A500 and A2000 were dream computers IMO because of
- >: their custom chips and architecture, not because of the lame
- >: 1.0/1.1/1.2 OS.
- >Yeah, right... Maybe in 1985. Today the custom chips is the
- >weakest part of the Amiga architecture.
- Yeah, maybe perhaps CBM never redid them (except the joke of ECS and the
- minor AGA update).
-
-