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- From: daeron@horus.co.jyu.fi (Aki Laukkanen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 13:46:20 GMT
- Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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- >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?
-
- Eh, why not I ask? At the moment developing for Amiga is costly and
- unrewarding because you have to make everything from scratch if you want to
- port it to PCs and other platforms or the other way around. (well, this isn't
- exactly true for the flock of doom engines around which could be easily ported
- if the programmer was wise enough to use some higher level language in
- everything else but the most time critical parts). Standardizing hardware is a
- big step which makes the burden of porting much smaller than with AGA/ECS and
- thus the step for game companies to port their games much smaller.
-
- >I mean, the PowerAmiga has nothing to do with the physolophy of the Amiga.
-
- Not true. People buy machines to run applications or the hobbyists to run a
- preferred environment. And for me the preferred environment is our beloved
- AmigaOS.
-
- >If a ECS/AGA 680x0 programmer has to learn a new standard (SVGA), and a new
-
- What's there to learn? Nothing, just a few API calls.
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- >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).
-
- What's so bad in it? It has got enough registers and it has some clever design
- issues like two endianess. Unlike some other RISCs it's quite CISCish to
- program actually. AND it has integer division unlike Alpha for example.
-
- >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,
-
- The AmigaOS, what more do you want?
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- Daeron
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