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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 20:15:58 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Aki Laukkanen (daeron@horus.co.jyu.fi) wrote:
- : >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
-
- In a rendering pipeline 90% is time critical... The best 3d gfx library
- on the PC seem to be 100% in asm. But the engine is the time critical
- part of a 3d game, not much of the game would require an asm version of
- the 'time critical' functions.
-
- : >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.
-
- I personaly like the amiga because its 680x0 based (I have lots of fun
- programing that chip), because I like its shell... and other little
- 'minnor' things, but thats pretty much it today.
-
- : >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.
-
- You supose here that the OS fully support (and support 'correctly')
- the HW :)
-
- : >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?
-
- If the new 'amiga' OS is compatible with the current amiga OS I think it
- would be a big mistake. AT as the chance now to clean it up, chnage it
- for the better.
-
- Stephan
-