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- From: cbrown@armltd.co.uk (Chris Brown)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 12:43:17 -0000
- Organization: Advanced RISC Machines Limited
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- In article <3089.6657T1299T630@mbox.vol.it>,
- Fabio Bizzetti <bizzetti@mbox.vol.it> wrote:
- >
- >This way you are admitting that the Amiga is dead, if because of the past we
- >can't have the future we should have. Making it become a PC clone will not
- >save the Amiga, will only save Escom's investiment.
-
- No-one wants to turn it into a PC clone. Using standard hardware does
- not make the Amiga into a PC clone, it makes it into an Amiga that is
- cheaper to produce and free of all the hardware incompatibilities and
- nightmares we've had to put up with over the years. Whilst I
- understand your frustration about not making money from your game, and
- I sympathise, this is not ATs fault. If anyone is to blame it is
- Commodore and the years of neglect the Amiga suffered at their
- hands. Things won't get better overnight, but surely you must see that
- if the Amiga has any future at all, it doesn't lie down the path of
- quickly outdated, expensive proprietry hardware. In 1985 the Amiga
- chipset was a godsend. It left its mark on the graphics chipsets of
- today, where the use of hardware acceleration is popular. Perhaps it
- would have been nice if it influenced them more, but we have to live
- in the real world now. We're not in 1985 anymore. This is 1996, and
- the once godsend is now a millstone around our neck that threatens to
- drag the Amiga down into permenant obscurity. AT are trying to stop
- that from happening, and IMO the way they're going about it is utterly
- sensible. The Walker project is, without expansion, similar enough to
- a current Amiga, but has enough expansion potential to form the
- stepping stone to the PowerAmiga and standard parts. The upgrade path
- is celar. Buy a Walker machine later this year, that uses the 68030
- and AGA, and then as products become available, replace the CPU with a
- PowerPC processor and put in an inexpensive, standard SVGA card to
- take over AGAs functionality, using CyberGraphX or something. because
- AGA and the 68030 are an inexpensive combination, this means that you
- can have a new machine very quickly that is upgradable to Power Amiga
- spec with very littl emoney wasted. I suspect this is similat to ATs
- reasoning, and strikes me as exactly the right thing to
- do. Religiously clinging to the glory days of the A500, and bemoaning
- ATs inability to to travel back in time and make it all alright gets
- us nowhere.
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