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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Path: netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!scala!news
- From: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- Subject: Re: Traditional Amiga is dying.
- Sender: news@scala.scala.com (Usenet administrator)
- Message-ID: <1996Apr11.171357.7564@scala.scala.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:13:57 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- References: <4kh7su$51l@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au>
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- Organization: Scala Computer Television, US Research Center
-
- In <4kh7su$51l@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au>, qmnmaren@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au (Nickolas Marentes) writes:
- >Who remembers those early Amiga Ads in the magazines such as
- >the one that showed the three custom Amiga chips with the
- >following text?
-
- I started to get into the Amiga before it was out. I remember this all
- too well.
-
- >"You're looking at 4,096 colors, 4-channel stereo, 32
- >instruments, 8 sprites, 3-D animation 25 DMA channels, a bit
- >blitter and a male and female voice. Only Amiga gives you all
- >this and a 68000 processor too!"
-
- >For many of the true Amiga enthusiasts today, it was those
- >words that sold them onto the Amiga. The Amiga stood out from
- >the crowd. It was unique and innovative.
-
- >When AT release the Power Amiga, what will their advertising
- >say? Will it be able to boast the same level of unique'ness
- >and innovation?
-
- Compared to what? It's a different world than it was back in
- '85. There are many, many companies working on the kinds of things
- that Amiga and few others were back then.
-
- >Motorola has stated that they will support Windows NT (PowerPC
- >Version) for the PPCP standard.
-
- Well, they're supporting Windows NT right now, because it gives them
- an OS for their existing PReP systems (pre-PPCP). The PPCP standard
- is designed to make the choice of OS as easy as it is on the
- PClone. Of course, without any one dominant OS, it should be a far
- more interesting choice. Don't forget that Motorola has a MacOS
- license.
-
- >This to me spells disaster for the Amiga as we know it. The
- >Power Amiga will only succeed as a WindowsNT system.
-
- Windows NT isn't going to run on low-end Power Amigas. Sure it'll run
- on $2000 16MB+/1GB+ systems. So will the MacOS.
-
- >There is a possible alternative. For those who don't know,
- >apart from Jay Miner, there was also two other fellows who
- >developed the original Amiga custom chipset. They were Dave
- >Needle and RJ Mical.
-
- Sure, Dave and RJ were there in the early days. Dave did little bits
- of everything: chip work, system work, etc. RJ's a software engineer,
- and he left 3DO last January.
-
- >They are about to release (via Matsushita) the new 3DO Mark II. Fully
- >64bit with some very impressive custom chips (look in the 3DO
- >newsgroup and Web Pages).
-
- Sure, the M2 isn't bad, though I gather that its design was dominated
- by a large population of ex-Apple folks at 3DO. It's not a 64-bit
- version of Dave's original 3DO design.
-
- >This is only an idea but unless AT really do something with
- >the Amiga that will propell it way past the competition, I'm
- >afraid the only losers will be us dedicated and true Amiga
- >followers.
-
- There are more things in heaven and earth than dreamt of in your
- philosoph, Horatio.
-
- Dave Haynie | ex-Commodore Engineering | for DiskSalv 3 &
- Sr. Systems Engineer | Hardwired Media Company | "The Deathbed Vigil"
- Scala Inc., US R&D | Ki No Kawa Aikido | info@iam.com
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- "Feeling ... Pretty ... Psyched" -R.E.M.
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