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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 30 Mar 1996 20:06:08 GMT
- Organization: Internet Online Services
- Message-ID: <1406.6450T24T2047@gramercy.ios.com>
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-
- >Don't you get it yet? Machines these days aren't about hardware, that idea
- >died in 1994, when C= went bust.
- Says who? And if you say the market, well the market also picked
- Intel+Windows. That's not what the Amiga is uspposed to cater to.
-
- >I take soon to mean son, and why not? asm is dying... Why not learn a system-
- And yet, all the California multimedia and game companies count it as an
- extreme advantage for applicants to have knowledge of assembler and hitting
- the hardware.
-
- >>>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?
- Yes,it does.
-
- >no, just a lot more expensive for something that will go out of date very
- >quickly.
- Just to mimick the copper and say 4-6, 24 bitplayfields alone you'd need an
- astounding gfx bandwidth.
-
- >no, the 68k and the asm programmer is a dead end, but the amiga will live on.
- The Amiga was the custom chipset.
-
- >the PPC has speed (more than a
- >pentium, than that is _fast_), and the Amiga has the OS. what more do you
- >need?
- More than a brute force boring, non-architecture.
-
- >they are not destroying it, just bringing it into the present. be realistic,
- >this isn't 1985.
- By getting rid of all the special hardware effects that made the Amiga
- special.
-
-