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- From: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.games,alt.sys.amiga.demos,in,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Possible loss of the Copper (was Re: AB3D II beats Quake....)
- Date: 17 Apr 1996 15:22:00 GMT
- Organization: Video On Line
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <2399.6681T1042T2016@mbox.vol.it>
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- >>Give it up, for goodness sake. The days of custom hardware are
- >>*over*. Today, the operating system is everything. You argue that
- >>standard hardware will stop people writing Amiga games. Look around
- >>you! The Amiga games market has gone, dead, finished, and you know
- >>why? It's because the custom chipset makes games expensive to port,
- >>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.
- >>--
- >>/* _ */main(int k,char**n){char*i=k&1?"+L*;99,RU[,RUo+BeKAA+BECACJ+CAACA"
- >>/* / ` */"CD+LBCACJ*":1[n],j,l=!k,m;do for(m=*i-48,j=l?m/k:m%k;m>>7?k=1<<m+
- >>/* | */8,!l&&puts(&l)**&l:j--;printf(" \0_/"+l));while((l^=3)||l[++i]);}
- >>/* \_,hris Brown -- All opinions expressed are probably wrong. */
-
- >Give up what?, These custom chips have proven them selves time and
- >time again. The pc clone wold has just recently started to catch up to
- >the AMIGAS standard. Win 95 still wont multitask to the extent the
- >AMIGA can, and to do it you need a shit load of CPU power and memory.
-
- [...]
-
- > Nope I disagree with you
- >extreamly the days of single CPU processing are gone. Mutli-processing
- >is the way of the future, it has been a proven winner for more than 10
- >years now. Good on the AMIGA, it is doing somthing new, doing a good
- >job, lets see it improve.
- >Adam.
-
- I fully agree with you.
- Fortunately the pEEcEE makers (Escom) are away now, and we won't see much of
- this nonsense anymore. If VIScorp spends 40 millions US$ to buy what they
- already had in license, I guess they can spend the extimated 0.5 millions US$
- to finish AAA (or even better..).
-
- Unlike many people think, VIScorp didn't chose AGA rather than SVGA because
- of the 15Khz modes: most of the SVGA chips can do 15Khz.
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- VIScorp chosen the Amiga's technology because they know that its architecture
- is abyssally superior than any SVGA+ chip.
-
- VIScorp could be the best thing that happened to the Amiga since 1986.
-
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- | Fabio "Maverick" Bizzetti - bizzetti@mbox.vol.it - Maverick* at IRC |
- | The maker of "CyberMan" and "Virtual Karting" |
- | working on "VirtualRally" & "StarFighter" |
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