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- In a message of 11 Jan 96, Stephan wrote to All:
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- SS> It goes a long way compare to previous OS version, but from the
- SS> game market result not long enought to satisfy the industry.
- SS> IF somebody ask me to port donkey kong country to the A1200 I wont
- SS> use an OS RTG solution. The game will own the View and take over
- SS> 'all' the video chip register, and the blitter. It will multitask
- SS> but wont work on a picaso... But the end result, 'no' OS function
- SS> used for the game itself.
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- Why? There are some (FD) platform games on the Amiga that uses the OS and
- works fairly well. I must say that I prefer if they do open a normal
- screen, since the system can promote it to a decent screen mode.
-
- Hey, even that old game F1GP (or whatever) was said to run great on a
- normal Intuition screen. If that could be OS friendly, why not lots of
- other games as well? Ok, certain types would be hard, but not all.
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- SS> The A4000 could have been designed correctly.. 040 on motherboard,
- SS> completly new GFX chipset with a 'wb emu'. People with AGA wanted
- SS> AGA game, so people with 'AGA+' would have wanted 'AGA+' game anyway.
- SS> GFX card would have came latter, anyway I bet no card today could have
- SS> match what CBM could have delivered back then.
-
- Well, don't you know the story? They had an A3000+, that was really great
- (according to those who knew ;), but the management killed it when almost
- ready. Ok, it wasn't a completely new GFX chipset, but apart from that...
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- Magnus Holmgren - Amiga programmer and enthusiast
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