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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 21:44:46 GMT
- Organization: Internet Online Services
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- >> 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.
- Then again, CBM managed it and they weren't big. The M2 design team wasn't
- particularly large.
- If not though, perhaps they could at least licensce out all the Amiga
- proprietary stuff so that it ends up in all the clone gfx cards.
- >AmigaOS will have to come shipped with every PowerAmiga, or it won't be
- >an Amiga!
- Umm. but why buy the PowerAmiga if a PowerMAC or whatnot is 15-50% less and
- the hardware is the same?
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