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- From: lnielsen@supernet.ab.ca (Kor Nielsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: PowerPC Games.....yummy
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 20:35:20 GMT
- Organization: Alberta SuperNet Inc
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- Okay, maybe this should be in comp.sys.amiga.games, but games have been what
- has kept the amiga alive for so long. With the addition of the PowerPC chip to
- the low-end amiga, the bare-bonesamiga will have the power to do texture-
- mapped 3d graphX at 30fps, opening up the door for users who do not have
- enough money to buy a pentium, but still want to do word-processing and other
- boring things besides playing games. The addition of chunky graphics will also
- help speed up 3D games, elimiting the need for planar-chunky conversion.
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- And of course there's the 4x cd-rom drive which will drastically enhance the
- gaming experience. With almost every single commercial game coming out on cd-
- rom, the risk of piracy is reduced as long as the games take advantage of the
- higher capacity of cd-roms (since who wants to wait to download 400 megs for
- a dumb game), the elimination of floppy swapping or hard-disk filling up, and
- the added speed of the 4x drive.
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- By the time of the PowerPC amiga we should not still be using the AA chipset.
- If a new chipset isn't developed, there is always the option of a boring
- SVGA chip surface mounted to the mother board. (with the inclusion of the $20
- AA chips for compatibility with old software)
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