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- From: floh@mkmk.in-chemnitz.de (Andre Weissflog)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Message-ID: <qL-jy*bI0@mkmk.in-chemnitz.de>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 19:32:42 CET
- Reply-To: floh@mkmk.in-chemnitz.de
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- In article <4ja24k$cie@uvapsy.psy.uva.nl>, Bert Dorhout writes:
-
- > In order for AT/AmigaOS to use standard video cards of today more optimal
- > than other OSs, isn't it necessary to 'dictate' minimum specifications
- > for the video card??
- > Like... "The Walker takes standard PCI video cards with at least a blitter,
- > chipset type X (f.i. S3) or type Y (triton.. Is that a graph set anyway?
- > (just an example, though))", that kind of thing?
- >
-
- They will have to limit the types of cards that can be used in the
- beginning (like, "only S3 cards from manufacturer Matrox").
- Since AT and the Amiga market are very small, they'll
- have to write the gfx drivers on their own, and offer
- their sources as dev kits (I hope). That way they can't cover all
- existing gfx cards (it will not be like in the Wintel world, where
- the gfx card manufactures write the drivers).
-
- That's not necessarely a bad thing, Be does it that way and
- it seems to work.
-
- Bye,
- -Floh.
-
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