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- From: astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 06:13:27 GMT
- Organization: NetSpace Online Systems
- Message-ID: <1441.6639T1030T2123@netspace.net.au>
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- UNREGISTERED VERSION (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) said:
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- >> 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. Shaun C.
- >>Murray | e-mail: scm@mfltd.co.uk
-
- >Ack! The custom chipset IS the Amiga. AmigaDOS wasn't even originally
- >supposed to be the OS used on the machine. What the new machines need
-
- No way! The OS is the only thing the Amiga has that's better than other
- machines.
-
- AmigaDOS *was* the first OS considered, I think you'll find. The Amiga was
- originally planned to be a games console (not unlike the Atari 2600) so it
- wouldn't have had any OS to speak of at all.
-
- <lots of stuff about Hombre snipped>
-
- This won't happen, and I would be disappointed if it did. I want standard
- (read: cheap and fast) hardware that won't be obsolete when Amigas are still
- using them 5-10 years later!
-
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- Paul Dossett | EpiphoneYamahaPearlPaiste | Amiga 2000/040/17/365/3.1 __
- -------------| Amiga owner since 1988! | Amiga CD32/020/10/200/3.1__///
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