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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.be
- Subject: Re: 1995 Production Status?
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- Date: 26 Jan 1996 15:35:46 GMT
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- Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- : neilo@m140.aone.net.au (Neil O'Rourke) writes:
- : >is a step in the right direction, making it CHRP complient will take the
- : >"Amiga-ness" out of the system (no blitter to bang for moving stuff, no
-
- : No. Most current graphics systems have blitters and there are lots of
- : audio chips to chose from. The result is several magnitudes more
- : powerful than current Amigas.
-
- Furthermore, if the API is sophisticated enough, putting in new gfx/sound
- cards that are capable of self-processing will be automatically used -
- without rewriting or recompiling the software.
-
- For example, let's say you have some basic function in the API that
- allows something like:
-
- maptexture (myobject, mytexture)
-
- Right now, the main CPU(s) would provide this process. Later, you get a
- gfx card that handles texture mapping on the chip. Without rewriting the
- software, without a new OS (just a new driver), without even recompiling,
- the same function as written above will now use the hardware assisted
- features of the gfx chip and get a system wide speed up.
-
- The Amiga's non-API methods are what lead to the almost complete
- inability to use gfx cards with 90% of the old software.
-