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- From: fischerj@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Juergen "Rally" Fischer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: PowerPC RISC ? ..
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 16:36:53 GMT
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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- In article <4csbig$f1q@newsman.murdoch.edu.au>, hassel@cleo (Martin Hasselbacher) writes:
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- |> I have seen discussions of the future for the amiga.
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- |> Is it going to be PowerPc . or RISC or whatever.
- |>
- |> One thing I have interest in is all these new Power Consoles, the new
- |> game machines like PlayStation by Sony.
- |>
- |> Im just saying that the new Amiga might need some hardware like that.
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- AND the new OS must support easy-to-program and efficient use of those
- chips. the only way for several companies making their gfx-cards available
- to the Amiga.
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- |> I was suprised that the PlayStation runs a 32bit risc main cpu at 33 mhz..
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- if you got hardware mapping, there's not much work left for the cpu,
- you can use it for artificial inteligenct aliens or whatever ;)
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- |>
- |> Im hoping that some major improvement is made in the amigas Sound capabilities,
- |> nevermind if 8bit 4channel sounds good still.. but if the new amiga generation
- |> doesnt progress I will be ashamed to buy it.. . .
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- well, plug in a turbo into the A1200 with enough cpu time free and then
- enjoy multichanel 14bit stereo. I'm not against AGA+ having improved
- sound (I heard they plan to do so), but IMHO good old AGA can still
- do a lot if you just got a quick cpu.
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- I guess the new A1200 still got normal AGA.
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- |>
- |> Im also impressed again by PlayStation that it performs so well with a double
- |> spin cdrom?.. Having DSP helps It? well whatever it does stick it in TheAMIGA++
- |>
- |> I know this topic is quite worn out, but I want to post it here since replies
- |> dont stray off the subject , .... Wouldnt it be nice if ESCOM publised some
- |> high detail documents on the development, like day1 started proype,
- |> day2 succes in 32channel 16bit audio dma with 16x increase bandwidth
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- wanna lock chipmemacess by audio-dma ? ;)
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- separate soundmem has disadvanages, though, you need more mem if
- you can't share it with video dma...
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- |> day3 succesfuly modified operating system etc etc.
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