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- From: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.games,alt.sys.amiga.demos,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 15:27:58 GMT
- Organization: Video On Line
- Distribution: world
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- > bizzetti%mbox.vol.it@INTERNET wrote :
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- >>
- >>
- >>>bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti) wrote:
- >>>>
- >>>>>They're suppose to make a GFXcard version, or? If thats the case, the
- >>>>>chipmem problem will be gone :-)
- >>>>
- >>>>Maybe for you pal, not for the many A1200 owners.
- >>>>
- >>
- >>>How`s about some info on your coming games Fabio? ;)
- >>
- >>>Dave
- >>
- >>
- >> Patience please.. I am going to shoot detailed infos about 2 Amiga games
- >> and
- >> 1 hardware project at once, and if I see a cold response (expecially from
- >> AT about the hardware project), then byebye. After I heard the phrase
- >> "*everything* must be done with the OS, nobody will be allowed to hit the
- >> hardware directly anymore" I've lost all the enthusiasm that I still had,
- >> while mostly all the others (that have to live with this job, making games)
- >> already left the Amiga games market.
-
- >Well, you will still be able to access Video RAM... maybe you won't have the
- >copper anymore around... and instead of a Blitter a VGA chip doing the same
- >functions... but asides from that, no change... don't panic... (and i would
- >not say, that about "only OS" the last thing is spoken... i heard other stuff
- >(but what you would call "positive" sounded "negative" for me... grin... )
-
- >Steffen Haeuser
-
- Yes, but look it this way:
-
- Why should a developer support the PowerAmiga (meaning total hunger) instead
- i.e. the PC (meaning some well deserved earnings) when the two machines are
- exactly the same?
-
- I mean, the PowerAmiga has nothing to do with the physolophy of the Amiga.
-
- If a ECS/AGA 680x0 programmer has to learn a new standard (SVGA), and a new
- CPU, why should he learn the AT's PowerPC that has no market rather than
- a 80x86 PC? (that is still better than PowerPC, having studied PowerPC's
- Programmers Manual: PowerPC is the worst RISC chip ever made. By IBM btw).
-
- If PowerAmiga is as I heard it will be, programming it will be exactly as
- programming a PC; and if we are all destined to make this sad end, it's better
- to program the one of these 2 PC's that lets some incomes for the shitty work.
-
- I am worried that if PowerAmiga will be just a PC clone with a different CPU
- and OS (who really cares about games?), only *few* developers will be willing
- to live the hunger to support such a PC with the name "PowerAmiga".
- (remember here we are at comp.sys.amiga.games, not comp.sys.amiga.applications)
-
- IMO, Escom is fooling us: the PowerAmiga is in fact more IBM PC than today's
- Pentiums. Escom is making only low business.
-
- Would it be that hard to license 3DO-M2 chipset for big selling volumes??
-
- Escom wants the faithful Amiga owners to buy their IBM PC called PowerAmiga.
- IMHO, the name "Amiga" in the box isn't enough to consider it an Amiga.
- It has *nothing* from the Amiga, neither in hardware nor in phylosophy,
- besides a buggy OS that anyway, good or not, has nothing to do with real
- games/RealTimeSimulation applications.
- Too much sad, I hope that the 68060 I wanted to buy will serve me for years,
- because after the Walker there will be no Amigas anymore, only PC.
-
- Untill now Escom sold Pentium PC's to PC users, now they'll manage to sell
- their PC's also to Amiga users, stealing the name from this glorious machine.
- Nobody managed to kill the Amiga, only Escom made it possible.
-
- Come on.. am I wrong? Think of it.
-
-
- Hejdσ.. :(
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- | Stop that fucking imperialist embargo against Cuba. |
- | Hasta Siempre Comandante Che Guevara. |
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- | Fabio "Maverick" Bizzetti - bizzetti@mbox.vol.it - Maverick* at IRC |
- | The maker of "CyberMan" and "Virtual Karting" |
- | working on "Virtual Rally" and "StarFighter", the 3D game that will |
- | bring the Amiga to the top |
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