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From:Alan Watson
Date:20 Jun 2001 at 23:03:04
Subject:Re: Whinge,whinge!!!!

Hey Matt,

>> These decisions were borne of ONE simple fact: Ralph Schmidt and
>> the rest of his team do not get on with Haage & Partner, or certain
>> members of Hyperion (rhyming with "trouser").

That`s life.People don`t always see eye to eye.:(

>> Consider that: if MorphOS was the AmigaOS 4.x kernel, you wouldn't
>> need ANYTHING from Haage & Partner. They're out of the picture, but
>> Amiga decided they wanted to keep them (after some *ahem* persuasion
>> from H&P)

But you`d still need Warp3D,or at least something as good.

>> So the stumbling block is Hyperion and Warp3D and their OpenGL
>> work. I don't know how they could have resolved it, but there is
>> certainly no "battle" between two people wanting to have their say
>> in kernel matters, development environments or RTG solutions. Just
>> one of "we write 3D drivers" and "we hate <rhymes with trouser>"
>> on opposite sides.

Sorry to change the topic slightly here,but out of all the things
that Amiga have announced,one thing has stuck in my head.Using
Mesa instead of OpenGL.I understand that Mesa impliments the
functions of OpenGL,but will the fact that it isn`t OpenGL(if
you know what I mean)put off a lot of potential developers?I`m
mainly thinking about 3D apps like Lightwave,etc.As I use LW
every day in my job(have done,for the past 7 years on pc`s),
there`s nothing else I`d like to see more than LW coming `back`.

Then again I`ll settle for the port Realsoft4D,just in case.

>> And why WOULD there be a battle between kernel matters, devenv
>> or RTG issues? Because for MorphOS, they're complete already. How
>> can you argue a finished product?

True.But it has no `native` 3d api does it?There`s the Warp3d
emu stuff I suppose.Are there any plans for a native MorphOS
3d api at all?

>> For MorphOS, there is no special requirement to use ppc.library like
>> there is on AmigaOS - stuff runs natively if you compile it that way.
>> So any "kernel wars" are moot in that sense.

What about running MorphOS on the AmigaOne?Will that be possible
at all?

>> I just can't see why Amiga chose to favour H&P (when it has been stated
>> by Fleecy, in public, that H&P and affiliates are by far the worst of a
>> bad bunch in all these matters of fighting over control of Amiga
>> components)

I`m sure he has his reasons why.

Regards,

ALan

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