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- From: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.games,alt.sys.amiga.demos,in,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 23:57:04 GMT
- Organization: Video On Line
- Distribution: world
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- >On the 19-Mar-96 23:43:20 bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti) wrote:
- >>What sucks++ is that AT is not *capable* to make innovative custom chips
- >>(they can say it's not possible, but I know that every console producer
- >>makes custom chips). So, being not capable to make them, the PowerAmiga is
- >>destined to be another PC clone, with just a different CPU (PowerPC: btw, I
- >>bought a book and studied it, and I'm very disappointed: IT SUCKS, all the
- >>other RISCs are better, starting from the old and cheap Transputers) and a
- >>different OS. But for me, a games maker, the OS is not important for the
- >>final software.
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- >As far as I am concerned, the OS _is_the Amiga. That simple. What's
- >more, at the moment being `Amiga' and `games' in the same sentence
- >aren't heard that often, unfortunately. I can tell you this: I won't
- >buy any (future) Amiga game that is not HD installable, that bangs
- >the hardware in any form and that is not system-friendly.
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- The HD thing has nothing to do with *gfx* and *audio* standard or custom chips.
- Nor the keyboard chips, nor the mouse, nor the serial port.
-
- >>I never believed that I would have thought this, but now I must judge real
- >>facts: the PowerAmiga will born with much more *bad* problems than any
- >>quality.
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- >`*bad* problems' for an hardware-banging game programmer, you mean? I
- >couldn't care less, sorry.
-
- No, fully OS compatible games that run slower than if written in AmigaBasic.
-
- >>Who will support such an anonymous abort? If I wanna program the PC
- >>hardware, I program the PC. The PowerPC CPU *sucks bigtime*, if I've to
- >>learn another CPU, why should I learn PowerPC and not 80x86 that gives some
- >>food back?
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- >Again, ` *sucks bigtime*' from your very narrow-minded point of view.
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- You rule instead.
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- >Face reality,
-
- Me?
-
- > Amiga has survived as an hobbyist, developer, soho user
- >machine, _not_ as a game machine. PowerAmiga will be excellent
- >machines for the above, and, I believe, as game machines too.
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- Yeah, being ignorant as you are is easy to shoot *stronzate*.
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