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- From: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 5 Apr 1996 00:52:09 GMT
- Organization: Video On Line
- Distribution: world
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- Dr. Peter Kittel wrote:
-
- >In my eyes the Amiga chipset in 1985 was a miracle. Miracles don't
- >happen very often, and you cannot just give a command, and bang, they
- >happen. *If* you can spend half a billion dollars like Sony, then it
- >becomes a different story, of course. AT doesn't have so much money
- >to spend.
-
- It's true, but I certainly hope that this doesn't mean that the Amiga is dead,
- or that since miracles happen only one time we can't expect nothing amazing
- anymore.
-
- Al least I hope to see a low-end PowerAmiga able to enter in any house, kids'
- room as well as parents'. A computer cheaper than 750US$, able to perform
- the best videogames but still letting these kids to learn programming, to hope
- to materialize their imagination but still letting them rule the machine rather
- than becoming its slave (read: MicroSoft & Co.). A PowerAmiga that is versatile
- enough to use its same hardware also for Video/MultiMedia hobbystic and
- (semi)professional applications, a PowerAmiga able to give the best to any OS
- application such as WordProcessing, DataBase, Spreadsheets and to win the
- Internet/Networking war that is going to begin.
- An open and fully programmable hardware/software architecture to let who is
- skilled to make software miracles, and to make stay (and not leaving for PC)
- who hopes to improve these skills to aim at these miracles, believing in its
- hardware.
-
- I dont care if this can be reached licensing an existing architecture like the
- one of 3DO-M2 or using other (non Amiga Technologies') chips, but what it
- certainly must have is a minimum (high) well definited hardware standard, to
- let programmers know it and thus optimize their creations as much as possible.
-
- If it's not possible, and we dont have the right to ask these clever things
- from a computer anymore, then we're all doomed to give-up computers and quit
- this (important for the future) field, or be omologated as PC users (or "used").
-
- I would do anything to not let this happen, it's like something personal.
-
- Regards.
-
- >--
- >Best Regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // Visit http://www.amiga.de
- >Private Site in Frankfurt, Germany \X/ Email to: peterk@combo.ganesha.com
- >Employed at AMIGA Technologies GmbH in Bensheim, Germany
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