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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (UNREGISTERED VERSION)
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- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 18:32:52 GMT
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- Lars Nelson <lars@infohwy.com> wrote:
- >> They have so far decided to use a custom chip, or chips. Thank
- >> heavens! Without them, the Amiga would loose its smoothness and speed
- >> among other things.
- >Sigh. The Amiga's custom chips do little except slow it down right now.
- >The Amiga's "smoothness and speed" gets vastly better once you *stop*
- >using the custom graphics chips, for example. Even run-of-the-mill PC
- >graphics chips are 40 to 60X faster than AGA for many things.
- >All developing a new custom chipset will do is consume resources trying
- >to compete with the PC commodity players instead of using those
- >resources to work on areas in which they might actually add value. Its
- >better to level the work of companies that specialize in creating
- >graphics and sound chips, not roll your own. That approach will kill
- >the Amiga as surely as anything. What we do *not* need is a great deal
- >of AT's time and money sunk into creating yet another slow and out of
- >date chipset, especially when they haven't so much as said "boo" to
- >software developers, who are leaving in droves to other platforms.
-
- I'll I have to say is that I couldn't agree LESS. The custom chipset IS
- the Amiga. The Amiga way is heck of a lot more elegant and you get
- a lot more than just a dumb card with a high-transfer rate. Some of those
- cards do support some extras, but I haven't heard of any that let you do the
- sorts of things that a copper equipped card with say 4 independent
- playfields and hardware scrolling could, plus what they do offer is done in
- non-standard ways.
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