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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 23:07:42 GMT
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- >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!
- Where are the coppers, tons of playfields with bitplane ptrs, etc.?
-
- >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?
- Yes, I have programmed. Have you? In fact, I first learned the OS before
- going on to the learn the hardware. I learned BASIC, PASCAL, ACTION!, MODULA-
- II and C before assembler. Why don't those who say itis so possible go out and
- write a Shadow of the Beast with the OS then (hopefully with better designed
- playability though)? All they do is talk.
-
- >BTW, the Saturn is also dying slowly!
- And this is because some teams forit started hitting the hardware and going
- assembler? I think not. Those teams just produced the games that have named as
- saviors for the platform.
-
- >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.
- AGA stinks compared to what it could have been had CBM kept on people like
- Jay Miner and let them do their thing.
-
- >> 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?
- Every three years? They have only put out one new chipset in 10 years. And
- IBM people haven't gone out and bought new systems?
-
-