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- From: finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (finn)
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
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- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:52:12 GMT
-
- >>Fabio Bizzetti (bizzetti@mbox.vol.it) wrote:
-
- >>: What sucks++ is that AT is not *capable* to make innovative
- >>: custom chips (they can say it's not possible, but I know that
- >>: every console producer makes custom chips). So, being not
- >>: capable to make them, the PowerAmiga is destined to be another
- >>: PC clone, with just a different CPU
-
- >>Get real. Why do you think AT could produce something better
- >>than what's being produced by companies specialized in
- >>making GFX-Cards ?
-
- >Simply because it's possible.
- >OCS didn't have more transistors than the ones of the standard chips of 1981,
- >it had a more flexible structure (read my AgaEXTENDER to have an example)
- >that made all the things that we know possible. Do you think the copper
- >needed those many transistors? What if today the copper had a small static
- >ram (that is a very semplified cache) in the chip, how many instructions/sec
- >could it perform? The HiRes copper of the AgaEXTENDER practically doesn't
- >need any transistors.. and it's only an extension: think if the whole DMA
- >could be adapted to it. Nowadays, just make a custom chip with 1/4 of
- >transistors used by masters of technology, but do it in the clever way that
- >no standard manufacter will ever do: because custom chips break the standards
- >and goes only in one machine. Standard chips need to be generic and lame as
- >OS's and C++/Basic programming.
-
- don't compare c++ and basic, you may be trying to prove a point, but that
- approach isn't going to get you anywhere.
-
- >>: It seems that AT said << *everything* must be done with the OS,
- >>: direct hardware programming will not be allowed anymore >>
-
- >>With PPC and a _HOT_ PCI Gfx-card why would you want to bang
- >>the hardware ? The OS would make it unnecessary with a
- >>suitable Game API.
-
- >hehe... well, I surrender: I dont need a PC + a sticker with the name
- >"Amiga". AT will make the API, then you'll understand what I meant. To
- >explain now I should explain you about all the secrets of asm programming,
- >adapted to realtime gfx.
-
- Don't you get it yet? Machines these days aren't about hardware, that idea
- died in 1994, when C= went bust. The machines of today are all coming towards
- a standard chipset, meaning it is the OS that will be the important bit of any
- machine. On a RISC processor, the compiled languages (C, C++, Pascal) can
- write as efficiant code as a good asm programmer, if not better, so a good OS
- and compiler will produce very fast, high quality code for the machine.
-
- >The day that the PC will begin a new era in games (no more texture mapping,
- >but 3D sprites and pseudo RayTracing), then you all PC users with a
- >PowerAmiga will fu*k your API.
-
- Oh come on, you haven't even seen the machien yet, and your are condemming it
- already! Is it just because you hate any component that has ever been inside a
- PC? I think standard hardware is the best thing that could happen to the
- Amiga, as it will make it cheaper and more powerful. Why don't you think the
- Amiga could do 3D sprites etc? If they have the same hardware, but the Amiga
- has a better OS then the Amiga should be ahead...
-
- >I dont know what to add: things have to go this way to let you understand
- >what you dont know. I would never allow my soon to program in C++ language.
-
- I take soon to mean son, and why not? asm is dying... Why not learn a system-
- indepentant language? It will help in the future... why be tied to the 68k or
- the 80x86 processors?
-
- >;-)
-
- >No offence, just a very discouraged thought.
-
- >>: If AT wants this shit from PowerAmiga, then IMHO the *last*
- >>: Amiga will be the 680x0 and AGA based ones. The PowerAmiga
- >>: will be a PC with just another CPU.
-
- >>No, It will run AmigaOS. Don't you see that the OS is the ONLY
- >>advantage the Amiga has today! It lacks in all other
- >>departments!
-
- >So, instead of only keeping the OS, LET'S IMPROVE WHAT NEEDS TO BE IMPROVED.
-
- >Doesn't this sound more logical?
-
-
- no, just a lot more expensive for something that will go out of date very
- quickly.
-
- >>: The A1000/A500 and A2000 were dream computers IMO because of
- >>: their custom chips and architecture, not because of the lame
- >>: 1.0/1.1/1.2 OS.
-
- >>Yeah, right... Maybe in 1985. Today the custom chips is the
- >>weakest part of the Amiga architecture.
-
- >Sure, so?
- >When you run out of gasoline in your car, you keep the tires and throw away
- >the car?
-
- more like when the car rusts away :) What AT is doing is salvageing what is
- left of the Amiga and making it into a very mean machine.
-
- >>: We should have gathered 10000 people through Internet, and
- >>: bought the Commodore by ourselves. ;-<
-
- >>Imagine the 10000 people arguing over which way the Ami should
- >>go..... ;-)
-
- >No, thanks.
- >Now I understood: the Amiga is definitely dead.
-
- no, the 68k and the asm programmer is a dead end, but the amiga will live on.
-
- >Good for BillyPig, soon or late he'll sell his stuffs to the whole world, in
- >a regime of monopoly.
-
- you idiot, why do you immeadiatly compare any machine with standard hardware
- to somting running M$ software? Without all the stupid (mostly M$ imposed)
- limits, and with a decent OS the PC would be an exellent machine. I do hate
- it at the moment, but with Workbench 4 on it.... I could learn to like havging
- 100mips at my disposal.
-
- >>: The PowerPC CPU *sucks bigtime*, if I've to learn another
- >>: CPU, why should I learn PowerPC and not 80x86 that gives
- >>: some food back?
-
- >>The choice is obviously yours...
- >>What other _viable_ and _affordable_ CPU would YOU choose for
- >>the Amiga ?
-
- >68030+HombreHP-PA for low-end.
- >68060+HombreHP-PA for high-end.
-
- >Note that the HP-PA has the fastest FPU available in a RISC cpu, and it's
- >damn fast in everything else too.
-
- I think AT should stick with what they have. Do you have a problem with what
- powermacs can do? If not, then shut up. If so, then what. Machines these days
- are about two things: speed and the OS. the PPC has speed (more than a
- pentium, than that is _fast_), and the Amiga has the OS. what more do you
- need?
-
-
- >>
- >>: For being "idealist", I wasted more than 1 year of fulltime
- >>: work on the Amiga, to make my first commercial game and live
- >>: with it, and I got only 1549 UKP,
-
- >>That's not much for all the work you put in. You have my
- >>sympathies.
-
- >>: Well,from the deepest of my heart: FUCK OFF AT,
- >>: you made it all become useless.
-
- >>Sure. This is just the constructive feedback AT needs. NOT!
-
-
- >How can I be constructive with whom is destroying my system?
-
- they are not destroying it, just bringing it into the present. be realistic,
- this isn't 1985.
-
- Finn Higgins
-
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