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- From: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.games,alt.sys.amiga.demos,comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 21:28:19 GMT
- Organization: Video On Line
- Distribution: world
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- References: <2934.6656T1039T1879@Redrobe.demon.co.uk>
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- >>Nope pal, Gfx Boards mean not-A1200, and A1200 are the most diffused Amigas.
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- >Huh? probably wont buy one of your games then...
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- It's ok for me.
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- >>I think that the low end CISC Amiga will always be 40 or 50 Mhz 68030, 4 Mb
- >>FastRam and AGA chipset, although ECS *have* to be supported *whenever*
- >>really possible, not caring about quality loss (it's its users' matter).
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- >>As I wrote in Virtual Karting text, a 50Mhz 68030 can do great things, and
- >>I'll demonstrate "Virtual Rally" and "StarFighter" soon (end of April,
- >>Saturne Party).
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- >Could VK ever use a 1x1 display? Thats one of the reasons I didnt buy it....
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- Yes, if I thought it from begin... 2x1 is possible though.
- But when I designed it, the choice was A500 or (unlikely) unexpanded A1200.
- I've chosen the "high-end" of the 2 Amigas.
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- >Its a mistake to release a "chunky" -type game (tex-map) without allowing a
- >selection of screenmodes (2x2, 2x1,1x1 even lores/hires etc) to allow for
- >better machines.
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- I agree, but there're much more low-end machines, and if you've to support 1x1,
- you've also to make more detailed textures, meaning more disks (assuming you
- can save manage ram though, that is already a big problem).
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- >This is why I didnt buy AB3D or VK...
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- >I'll be buying AB3DII soon, as to Virtual Rally...that depends on how it
- >supports "faster" amigas...
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- It does.
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- > >Anyway, the Project Walker Amiga is an excellent low-end computer IMHO.
- >yes, still slow chipmem though...
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- Yes, but I am scared of all this "panic" that we see nowadays in Amiga users.
- PC had Doom, and everyone in the Amiga hated any excelled 2D game; it had to
- be Doom or nothing.
- PC has the *crap* (relatively to 1996 technology) SVGA chips, and you all
- want SVGA on Amiga.
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- You'll buy SVGA cards, then you'll discover that (besides static images) you
- got a worse system, because your 68030 can't move anything on the screen.
- You'll need the equivalent of a 200Mhz Pentium Pro, and the fastest 68060
- available is only 50Mhz. There will never be a *low-end* Amiga (RISC included)
- with the CPU power of a fast Pentium. The PPC603 is simply SLOW.
- You'll buy the high-end PowerAmiga (that must be at least a 100Mhz PPC604e to
- compete with Pentium Pro), and after having spent so much money, you and your
- other 3 mates in the whole world that made the same will not get games for it.
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- If you wanna listen me, I've much to say about it, to avoid the sad end that
- is in front of all the Amiga game users.
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- >Mike
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- >Mike Redrobe - Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk MikeRR on #Amiga
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- | Stop that fucking imperialist embargo against Cuba. |
- | Hasta Siempre Comandante Che Guevara. |
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- | Fabio "Maverick" Bizzetti - bizzetti@mbox.vol.it - Maverick* at IRC |
- | The maker of "CyberMan" and "Virtual Karting" |
- | working on "Virtual Rally" and "StarFighter", the 3D game that will |
- | bring the Amiga to the top |
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