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- From: jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph")
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Message-ID: <Dou4tv.2Bt@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Organization: Compulink Information eXchange
- References: <2746.6655T778T454@gramercy.ios.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 18:03:31 GMT
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-
- > No, that's not what I meant at all. The more, the merrier. I must
- > not have
- > explained it clearly.
-
- I apologise for misunderstanding you...
-
- > What I meant is that if the Amiga hardware becomes identical to
- > clone hardware who will bother to make Amiga games/demos anymore? Why
- > not just
- > make them for Intel clones, the gfx won't be any more boring because
- > theye
- > will be the same and the market will be much, much larger. The Amiga
- > games
- > market would have dried-up to its current state long ago had it not
- > been for
- > the custom chips.
-
- You have a good point, something I really can't argue with. The problem I
- see is that there isn't an easy solution. We'll never see an
- AAA/AAAA/Hombre chipset for the Amiga now, Amiga Technolgies simply don't
- have the resources. So in reality we have a choice between keeping AGA
- alone (worst possible option IMHO), buying an off-the-shelf SVGA chipset
- and either complementing (my favourite option) or replacing AGA, or
- getting a new chipset entirely, perhaps something like M2 (assuming that
- the chipset is available and will work in an Amiga-style architecture).
-
- I don't think that an M2 style chipset, designed for video games, is
- necessarily suitable for a computer, and the problem with arcade game
- chipsets like M2 is they become obsolecent very very quickly. At least
- SVGA-style chipsets are constatly evolving, and competition in the market
- means you're never reliant on one supplier.
-
-
- > Although I don't know that
- > NT will do all that much. I hear that it makes Windows95 seem the memory
- > efficiency. If the main clone market went PPC+Windows95 then that be a
- > big
- > thing.
-
- Windows95 is purely a transitional stage to NT. As far as Microsoft are
- concerned, WindowsNT is the future, Win95 is purely a stepping-stone to
- get people using Windows 3.1 and DOS to upgrade to 32-bit applications.
- Within a couple of years, Win95 (and Win96, etc.) will be ditched (no bad
- thing), and Windows NT will take over. Windows NT is a pretty good OS,
- it's the only Microsoft OS that has ever been written for a competetive
- market (competing with Unix, OS/2 etc.), and it shows...
-
- > But will the NT users even have bothered to purchase AmigaOS for his
- > PPC
- > clone? Why will he spend $60-150 dollars on a product that he doesn't
- > evenknow
- > exists and has like 1 or 2 native apps?
-
- AmigaOS will have to come shipped with every PowerAmiga, or it won't be
- an Amiga!
-
- Jolyon
-