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- From: astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 11:22:43 GMT
- Organization: NetSpace Online Systems
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- Fabio Bizzetti (bizzetti@mbox.vol.it) said:
-
- >Yes, but I am scared of all this "panic" that we see nowadays in Amiga users.
- >PC had Doom, and everyone in the Amiga hated any excelled 2D game; it had to
- >be Doom or nothing. PC has the *crap* (relatively to 1996 technology) SVGA
- >chips, and you all want SVGA on Amiga.
-
- PCs have cards with 24bit, graphics accelerators, built-in MPEG, 3D hardware...
- I want that.
-
- >You'll buy SVGA cards, then you'll discover that (besides static images) you
- >got a worse system, because your 68030 can't move anything on the screen.
- >You'll need the equivalent of a 200Mhz Pentium Pro, and the fastest 68060
- >available is only 50Mhz. There will never be a *low-end* Amiga (RISC
- >included) with the CPU power of a fast Pentium. The PPC603 is simply SLOW.
-
- That's why keeping the 680x0 is a bad idea. And why are you comparing a low end
- PowerPC chip to a top end Pentium? PowerPC chips are quite reasonable compared
- to Pentium prices, you know. And the PPC603 would likely stomp your 060 into
- the ground.. ;)
-
- Not to mention the 603e or 604..
-
- >You'll buy the high-end PowerAmiga (that must be at least a 100Mhz PPC604e to
- >compete with Pentium Pro), and after having spent so much money, you and your
- >other 3 mates in the whole world that made the same will not get games for it.
-
- Not from you, anyway. You'll be coding for the 3 people still buying A1200
- games
-
- >If you wanna listen me, I've much to say about it, to avoid the sad end that
- >is in front of all the Amiga game users.
-
- Please don't.
-
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