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- From: astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 10:23:05 GMT
- Organization: NetSpace Online Systems
- Message-ID: <2860.6657T779T750@netspace.net.au>
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- Pacarana (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) said:
-
- >>Get real. Why do you think AT could produce something better
- >>than what's being produced by companies specialized in
- >>making GFX-Cards ?
-
- > Well considering that they bought the computer that started all that one
- >should hope so. Hey, M2 was made inpart by some of the same people who made
- >the Amiga (not even the main designer at that).
-
- And didn't the M2 do well? Not!
-
- Are you seriously suggesting AT should create a chipset *from scratch* that
- would be obsolete by the time it came out, when there are dozens of extremely
- professional companies creating blazing hardware for the PC and Mac right now?
- Man, get out of the 80s loop!
-
- >>: 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.
-
- > Hah. Especially if it had a copper. Also look how good the newest Saturn games
- >are once they started bashing the hardware directly.
-
- Have you programmed? Have you read the pile of posts from respected Amiga
- programmers asserting this kind of power *is* possible using a well-written OS
- correctly?
-
- BTW, the Saturn is also dying slowly!
-
- >>: 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.
-
- > Exactly!
-
- Gee, guess you'd be better off using a 500! The OS is the only advantage now!
-
- >>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!
-
- > Not entirely true, plus they need to make a new chipset not PPC+AGA!
-
- Please explain how this is not true. Please explain to me how great the 1992-
- era graphics set is. Tell me again how advanced our 10 year old sound chip is.
-
- >>: 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.
-
- > Yeah, maybe perhaps CBM never redid them (except the joke of ECS and the
- >minor AGA update).
-
- Custom chips (in the Amiga sense) don't work anymore. What we need is a strong
- OS4 and good APIs. I want replaceable 3D hardware, I want true PCI 24bit cards,
- I want 16bit sound. I *don't* want to replace my computer every 3 years like I
- have had to with my Amigas. Do you?
-
-
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