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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: 24 Mar 1996 21:32:57 GMT
- Organization: St. John's, NFLD, Canada
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- Mike (Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk) wrote:
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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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- : hmmm, seen UAE?
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- Heard about it, Unix Amiga Emulator?
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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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- Still some games require fancy timing and won't work. I really could care
- less, my opinion of amiga games looks up at snakes bellies. :)
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- Regards,
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- BM
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