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- From: Alex Amsel <Alex@teeth.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 16:06:37 GMT
- Organization: Silltunna Software
- Message-ID: <879562157wnr@teeth.demon.co.uk>
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- In article: <4jsj9c$i7q@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
- fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Juergen "Rally" Fischer) writes:
-
- > : you! The Amiga games market has gone, dead, finished, and you know
- > : why? It's because the custom chipset makes games expensive to port,
- >
- > NOT! Take ID's DOOM (it's written in C), rewrite the little
- > asm parts (they say 2 asm routines).
- > Then, for taking care of custom chipset, i.e. planar mode, add a
- > c2p routine from the net. voila. (but those ba****** won't allow
- > a port).
- >
-
- Yes they will, but Doom would require paying a large sum of money for as
- a license. More than you would *ever* make from an Amiga version :(
-
- > : and with a vastly smaller userbase it isn't practical. If the Amiga
- > : used standard hardware, we'd get more games because porting them
- would
- > : be very easy indeed.
- >
- > not. you could use this excuse some years ago, due to the c2p
- algorithm
- > beeing not easy to do.
-
- There is more than c2p at stake here. Quite apart from the extra work
- (and thus costs) getting someone converting it, marketing it, the
- amazing hassles you would NEVER believe getting it into the shops, you
- also must remember that PC games now have 8 megs standard ram and tend
- to require Pentiums. Even if the Amiga DID have a chunky mode they are
- no match at all for a Pentium when it comes to power.
-
- And if the did port stuff - imagine all the flames here because they
- didn`t spend time optimising it all for the Amiga etc.
-
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