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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Will the PPC split up the Amiga community?
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 17:01:05 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- S.E. Morris (fish@csc.liv.ac.uk) wrote:
- : The worst hit sector of the market will be the games, as many of the
- : programmers insist on using Assembler (which is understandable!)
- : This will mean you will probably get Amiga and PowerAmiga only games.
- : The 68000 emulation in the new machine could be too slow to run some
- : of the old games, but I wouldn't be surprised if some bright spark came up
- : with an Amiga emulator board for the PowerAmiga to run old games (this
- : could probably be done *fairly* cheaply too!)
-
- Dave Haynie mentioned the point that 680x0 timing (A problem with 060 machines
- as well I hear) and the PPC emulation of a 680x0 cpu will mean a lot of
- problems for some games. There is also the issue of new graphics hardware and
- sound hardware supposedly in the works, that will pretty much mean existing
- games won't work on the thing. It does promise exciting possibilities for new
- games however, so I would disagree that this is a bad thing generally for
- games.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
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