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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.games,alt.sys.amiga.demos,in,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Possible loss of the Copper (was Re: AB3D II beats Quake....)
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 12:47:39 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4iu7hb$utt@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <631.4T329T189@Bgnett.no> <5168.6652T1418T493@mbox.vol.it> <4is66c$j3r@hyperion.mfltd.co.uk>
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- Summary: Make it into an API or .library?
- Keywords: Possible?
-
- In article <4is66c$j3r@hyperion.mfltd.co.uk>,
- Shaun C. Murray <scm@mfltd.co.uk> wrote:
-
- >Of course we may lose features like the copper as I don't think any graphics
- >hardware out there has it yet but that can be worked around anyway when you
- >have a fast CPU and fast graphics chip.
- >
- >>But for me, a games maker, the OS is not important for the final software.
- >
- >It will be on the PowerAmiga. It's the most important part in fact. The OS's
- >ability to provide a stable game API so that you can get the best out of
- >whatever hardware you have installed is of prime concern. If AT want you to
- >write a good game, you should be pressuring them into what should be in the
- >game API. Get the specs for Microsofts DirectAPI for an idea.
- >
- >It's a very sensible idea indeed though I it would be better if AT could have
- >come up with a game API instead of the slow OS calls we have. Something like
- >rtg.library?
-
- Would there be a way to make a copper.library or copper API?
-
- >The thing that makes the Amiga viable is the OS. No other machine runs with so
- >little resources at such speed. The chips are secondary. Noone cares whats
- >under the hood these days. They just want good fast software for as little
- >cost as possible. This is what the Amiga does best and always has.
-
- Ahh.. but is this not partially due to the chipset and how much the OS
- and chipset interact with each other?
-
- >--
- >Shaun C. Murray | e-mail: scm@mfltd.co.uk
- >Micro Focus Ltd, Newbury, UK. | www: http://www.mfltd.co.uk/~scm/
- >
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