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- From: "Julio C. Arroyo" <jcarroyo@ix.netcom.com>
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- Subject: Re: Amiga Media /A.M.I.G.A. card
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 02:40:26 -0500
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- Market conditions being what they are I cannot blame AT in their desicion to use off the shelf graphic chips for the
- new Power Amiga. IMHO this is not that bad of a scenerio; depending how its implimented. What I would like to see is what I
- call "Amiga Media Integrated Graphic Acceleration" card or A.M.I.G.A card. This would in essence be a Multi-Media card on a
- PCI bus integrated with the ported Amiga OS. You can use off the shelf graphics chips with a fast DSP to handle 16 bit sound
- and maybe even provide 3D polygon rendering,Mpeg Codec, Jpeg Codec. Take this card one step further and make the DSP system
- scalable; this would allow more DSP chips to be added to the card and increase performance when more muscle is needed. On the
- back of the card you would have the standard svga output to the monitor with the addition of a 15khz output (gotta be able to
- output NTSC), stereo I/O, maybe even MIDI. This will put AT in the best possible of positions. The OS will still have tight
- integration with the chipset, even if its thru a bus, and giving the system the "Amiga" experience. AT would be able to place
- the media system locally in their motherboards, essentially the new Power Amiga. AT would be able to put the media system on
- a card, bundle it with the OS enabling PPC systems out there to upgrade/convert their units into a Power Amiga. Cheaper
- Amigas could be had as the clone CHRP platforms hit the street; just add the A.M.I.G.A. card ;-). With the proper software
- this card would become a neat affordable non linear editor for video. Developers would be developing for the same media
- architechture/OS regardless of the CHRP compliant platform you have; can you say cool games????. With a scalar DSP
- architechture and relatively small OS, the motherboard can even be licenced as a coin-op arcade machine with AWESOME
- graphics; can you say even cooler games directly accessible to our hardware??????.
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- Let me know what you think?
- jcarroyo@ix.netcom.com
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