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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: Will the PPC split up the Amiga community?
- Date: 18 Mar 96 15:22:14 +0000
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- Hi, Byron Montgomerie , on 13-Mar-96 17:01:05 you scribbled....
- >S.E. Morris (fish@csc.liv.ac.uk) wrote:
- >: The worst hit sector of the market will be the games, as many of the
- >: programmers insist on using Assembler (which is understandable!)
- >: This will mean you will probably get Amiga and PowerAmiga only games.
- >: The 68000 emulation in the new machine could be too slow to run some
- >: of the old games, but I wouldn't be surprised if some bright spark came up
- >: with an Amiga emulator board for the PowerAmiga to run old games (this
- >: could probably be done *fairly* cheaply too!)
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- >Dave Haynie mentioned the point that 680x0 timing (A problem with 060
- >machines as well I hear) and the PPC emulation of a 680x0 cpu will mean a lot
- >of problems for some games. There is also the issue of new graphics hardware
- >and sound hardware supposedly in the works, that will pretty much mean
- >existing games won't work on the thing. It does promise exciting
- >possibilities for new games however, so I would disagree that this is a bad
- >thing generally for games.
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- hmmm, seen UAE?
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- that emulates 68x00 and amiga hardware ....ok, its 1/5 a500 speed on 166
- pentium ....but might be worth it on ppc (easier to emulate 68k ..)
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- >Regards,
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- >BM
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- Mike
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