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- From: kthomas@ee.net (Dave Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT Walker Project
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 06:33:02 GMT
- Organization: eNET News Server 1
- Message-ID: <1261.6652T1096T137@ee.net>
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- >>Q: Will there be a new gfx chip set and sound chip set with the upcoming
- >> PPC amiga?
- >>
- >>A: The new Amigas will use standard-chips, but the walker still has AGA.
-
- >I thought Amiga Tecnologies were going to be working on their own new
- >Amiga chipset to provide 24 bit color and 16 bit sound and not use off
- >the shelve chips? Will this not kill the video output and other Amiga
- >specific characteristics?
-
- Think about it... If AT spent money trying to catch up to current levels of
- gfx chips, it would be wasted. Many people (including Haynie) have pointed
- out that off the shelf parts have advanced far beyond what even AAA would
- have been capable of. A new multimedia subsystem designed to the same basic
- idea as old amiga chipsets (offloading much of the work from the CPU) would
- be the right way to go. All that is needed is the design to bring all these
- standard chips together in one nice package. That is what would be special
- about it.
-
- The Amiga's operating system running on a PPC with a multimedia system done
- right with current gfx and audio technology would be an amazing thing.
-
- Dave Thomas
- kthomas@ee.net
-
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