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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (UNREGISTERED VERSION)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 17:52:38 GMT
- Organization: Internet Online Services
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- >The only sensible way to enhance the Amiga display architecture at the
- >moment is for a dual gfx architecture system.
- >Ie. Keep an AGA chipset on the motherboard as standard. That's fine for
- >all your genlocking applications, scala, video toaster support, etc. 100%
- >backwards compatibility.
- >But for hires application usage, you'll need a second chipset (S3Trio,
- >for example) included on the motherboard. The combination will work
- >EXACTLY the same way that an A4000 fitted with a good ZorroIII video card
- >will, but costs should be reduced as the zorro glue circuitry isn't
- >required.
- I don't know, I'd just can AGA completely from the new machines. You're
- hardly going to mollify chip coders and custom hardware lovers with that.
- Also if you use the same CPU and same GFX cards as any old PPC clone do you
- really think people would bother making AmigaDOS ports of games? Might as well
- just make it for a more prominent OS. Who would even buy the AT PPC harware
- then? Who says they will offer the lowest price? Thenif people get it
- somewhere else they might hold off on buying AmigaDOS for PPC until stuff
- comesout for it but not much might since no one has purchased anything from
- AT.
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