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- From: scm@mfltd.co.uk (Shaun C. Murray)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 12:57:43 GMT
- Organization: Micro Focus, Newbury UK
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- In article <635.6630T934T2123@gramercy.ios.com>, larrymb@gramercy.ios.com
- says...
- >
- >
- >>Christian-Eberhard Just (just@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de) wrote:
- >>: Does anyone know when the Amiga PowerPC is due, as I will soon be
- >>: needing to use a PC but would rather not have to buy a PC.
- >>I have read the PowerAmiga is slated for 1st quarter 1997. PowerPC cards
- >>for exsisting Amigas should be out this summer from Phase 5.
- >>-Nyle
- > How are they going to get it done so soon when they still don't seem to
- >have decided where to go with the Amiga's custom chips or, God forbid,
- >whether to even can them for future Amigas? I know that CBM was
- >ridculously slow about these kinds of things, but this sounds a bit
- >too quick to believe.
-
- I vote for canning them. I've been playing around with UAE (Un*x Amiga
- Emulator) over the last week. This emulator runs hardware banging hackers
- demos quite well. There are a couple of problems but nothing that couldn't be
- sorted out. Marble Madness had a few sprite problems ;-(
-
- Stick this emulation of the chipset in with a better 68k emulator on a fast
- PowerPC machine and you can run a fair amount of the old games and 68k stuff.
- AGA support still needs doing. Have some kind of app setup util that lets you
- run the program as 68K emu and chipset, 68K emu but use OS only calls or pure
- PPC application.
-
- Let us stick our own PCI graphics cards in and our own sound cards from the
- PC donor bank. On the cheap A1200 style box, presuming there still will be
- one, maybe just include a small daughtercard with a cheap VGA chip (W32p?) and
- a cheap 16bit sound solution.
-
- If anybody wants to do 15khz video still, let them pay for video cards.
- --
- Shaun C. Murray | e-mail: scm@mfltd.co.uk
- Micro Focus Ltd, Newbury, UK. | www: http://www.mfltd.co.uk/~scm/
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