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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Path: news.eunet.fi!nullnet!tna!marcus.alanen
- From: marcus.alanen@tna.nullnet.fi (Marcus Alanen)
- Subject: Re: Amiga doesn`t need Planar
- Message-ID: <64_5370@tna.nullnet.fi>
- References: <DLMrzx.JJx@csc.liv.ac.uk>
- Organization: The New Age BBBS
- Sender: news@tna.nullnet.fi (News Administrator)
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 20:56:56 +0200
-
- > The Amiga`s power lies within its copper chip NOT its cpu... if it had
- > to rely on Cpu power alone the amiga would have died with the Atari ST!
- > No all we really NEED is a immensily URGENT and CRAVING 64-bit uprated
- > BLITTER CHIP. If the Blitter was say 100 Megabytes per second
- [snip]
- > Here you get the best of Both worlds, multi-parallax ,
- > screen splitting, copper shading , and the rest
-
- The guy is right... almost. Everybody cheer!-) BUT!!!!
- The odd thing (copper?) giving the gfx to the *monitor*
- must be made ****faster****. A LOT!! On the PC, you get away
- with just one simply peek into the memory to get 8 colour bits
- on the screen. On the Amiga, there are bitplane pointers for
- each bitplane, which makes it kinda slow. <sigh> Actually,
- I don't care, because Gates will be rich anyway, PCs will be
- used more and more and Amiga will always stay as a small-used
- machine. Now that's sad. :(
-
- > HIT THE HARDWARE! HIT THE HARDWARE! HIT THE HARDWARE! HIT THE
-
- Err... You surely didn't mean that programs should trash
- the OS and use their own shitty routines instead???
- Sad. :-[
-
- Marcus Alanen
- marcus.alanen@tna.nullnet.fi
-