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- From: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Will the PPC split up the Amiga community?
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 21:05:38 GMT
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- >Hi, Byron Montgomerie , on 13-Mar-96 17:01:05 you scribbled....
- >>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!)
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- >>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.
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- At the CeBit they said that they aren't working on the new generation of custom
- chips. The new "Amiga" will use only PC chips.
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- >hmmm, seen UAE?
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- >that emulates 68x00 and amiga hardware ....ok, its 1/5 a500 speed on 166
- >pentium ....but might be worth it on ppc (easier to emulate 68k ..)
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- >>Regards,
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- >>BM
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- >Mike
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- >Mike Redrobe - Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk MikeRR on #Amiga
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