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- From: oddhs@sn.no (Odd H. Sandvik)
- 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....
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- Date: 20 Mar 1996 20:51:17 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
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- Fabio Bizzetti (bizzetti@mbox.vol.it) 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
-
- Get real. Why do you think AT could produce something better
- than what's being produced by companies specialized in
- making GFX-Cards ?
-
- : (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.
-
- Could you please explain why you think the PPC sucks ? Have you
- bought books about all the other RISC's too ?
-
- : It seems that AT said << *everything* must be done with the OS,
- : direct hardware programming will not be allowed anymore >>
-
- With PPC and a _HOT_ PCI Gfx-card why would you want to bang
- the hardware ? The OS would make it unnecessary with a
- suitable Game API.
-
- : If AT wants this shit from PowerAmiga, then IMHO the *last*
- : Amiga will be the 680x0 and AGA based ones. The PowerAmiga
- : will be a PC with just another CPU.
-
- No, It will run AmigaOS. Don't you see that the OS is the ONLY
- advantage the Amiga has today! It lacks in all other
- departments!
-
- : The A1000/A500 and A2000 were dream computers IMO because of
- : their custom chips and architecture, not because of the lame
- : 1.0/1.1/1.2 OS.
-
- Yeah, right... Maybe in 1985. Today the custom chips is the
- weakest part of the Amiga architecture.
-
- : We should have gathered 10000 people through Internet, and
- : bought the Commodore by ourselves. ;-<
-
- Imagine the 10000 people arguing over which way the Ami should
- go..... ;-)
-
- : 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?
-
- The choice is obviously yours...
- What other _viable_ and _affordable_ CPU would YOU choose for
- the Amiga ?
-
- : For being "idealist", I wasted more than 1 year of fulltime
- : work on the Amiga, to make my first commercial game and live
- : with it, and I got only 1549 UKP,
-
- That's not much for all the work you put in. You have my
- sympathies.
-
- : Well,from the deepest of my heart: FUCK OFF AT,
- : you made it all become useless.
-
- Sure. This is just the constructive feedback AT needs. NOT!
-
-
- --
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