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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (UNREGISTERED VERSION)
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- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 23:28:54 GMT
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- >> > It can't be done without _MAJOR_ money, which AT and Escom don't
- >> >have.
- >> The original chipset team didn't have all that tremendously much money.
- >> And if AT can't afford to do a good chipset then they should have never
- >> bothered to go to the auction for CBM. I wish the auctionhad proceeded
- >> faster so that the IBM/CEI team could have won.
-
- > And by modern standards, those graphics chips are terribly limited:
- >slow, low-color, limited RAM access, etc. AT has the right idea: let
- >someone ELSE spend the money to develop these things, then buy the chips
- >and use them. Leverage their expertise, don't try to re-invent the wheel.
- Re-invent the wheel? The Amiga's chipset design holds many patents. They are
- the ones who got everything going. What clone cards have multiple-playfields
- and copper lists, etc.?
-
- >> >There's a good reason why PC chips have been advancing as rapidly as
- >> >they have in the last few years, it's because the ATI's, Diamond's, etc,
- >> >have been making money hand over fist on their video cards and have been
- >> >plowing it back into the development of ever-faster and more capable
- >> In terms of special effects they stink. There is a lot more than raw
- >> block transfer blitter speed.
-
- > <yawn> Another demo coder. Simply put: I could care less if they're
- >not great at what you consider `special effects'. They're very good at
- >what they do, and improving all the time. Locking the next-generation
- >Amiga to a proprietary chipset in this day and age is insane, because by
- >the time it's available it will be completely obsolete by marketplace
- >standards.
-
- A next gen custom chipset would have more than enough raw block transfer speed
- and resoloution to handle the needs of 99.9% of Amiga users, PLUS lots of
- extra effects.
-
-