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- From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Falcon030 -- Truth not Fiction
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 01:08:04 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
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- Ok, I'm going to ask a few questions and I only wish for people that
- know enough about the Falcon030 to answer them.
-
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- If you do not believe you can answer the question comfortably,
- don't answer it.
-
- I'm finding out that many of you THINK you know the answer and reply
- as you KNOW for SURE, but you really don't know what you are talking about.
-
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- IS the Falcon030 with a Motorola 68030 16 MHz CPU powerful enough
- to produce games that require scaling, rotation, scrolling, and 3-D imaging?
- I'm talking WITHOUT a blitter and DSP chip.
-
- Is the Falcon030 with a 68030 16 MHz CPU and Blitter 16 MHz powerful
- enough to produce games that require scaling, rotation, scrolling, and
- 3-D imaging?
-
- If so, what does the Blitter do to help? And how did Atari manage
- to make the Blitter faster?
-
- And WHY did Atari make the Blitter faster?
-
- Can the DSP help at ALL in video games such as flight simulators?
-
- I was told that since the DSP can only transfer information at the
- rate of 1 Mb/sec, it would not help much. Is this true?
-
- How much slower would a game such as "Sonic" run in TRUE color video
- vs. 256 color video?
-
- How many people believe that 1 Megabyte should be the lowest amount
- of memory Atari should include with the Falcon030?
-
- How many people believe that 2 Megabytes should be the lowest amount
- of memory Atari should include with the Falcon030?
-
- How many people believe that 4 Megabytes should be the lowest amount
- of memory Atari should include with the Falcon030?
-
- Please consider this from a marketing stand-point as well as
- programmers view.
-
- Also explain WHY you believe it should be sold with this minimum
- instead of the others.
-
- Should the Falcon030 have had a graphics coprocessor in it?
-
- How much of an advantage would the Falcon030 have with a graphics
- coprocessor in video games?
-
- How much of an advantage would the Falcon030 have with a graphics
- coprocessor in video production?
-
- There is a rumor that the Jaguar will be similar to the Falcon030
- with a Motorola 68030 16 MHz CPU, but with a 64-bit graphics coprocessor.
- How many of you believe that this could be possible. Why or why not?
-
- If it was possible for Atari to redesign the Falcon030 and incorporate
- this graphics processor and then slip it into the production line
- in the middle of next year, do you think it would be a good idea,
- why or why not?
-
- How many of you feel that a graphics coprocessor is so important to
- the success of the Falcon030 that it would be worth delaying the machine
- another 2 months to include one?
-
-
- There will be flickering in interlace video mode on TV, how noticeable
- will this be?
-
- Translation: Will it give you headaches if playing video games on TV
- in interlace mode?
-
- How many people believe that Atari should concentrate on music with
- the Falcon030?
-
- How many people believe that Atari should concentrate on entertainment
- with the Falcon030?
-
- How many people believe that Atari should concentrate on multi-media
- with the Falcon030?
-
- How many people believe that Atari should concentrate on video production
- with the Falcon030?
-
- AND WHY DO YOU BELIEVE SO?
-
- Is there any other market that you believe Atari should be going
- after with the Falcon030?
-
- How many people believe that the Falcon030 will be WAY underpowered
- as a home computer in Fall, 1993? And why?
-
- How many people believe that the Falcon030 will be WAY underpowered
- as a home computer in Fall, 1994? And why?
-
- How many people feel that they will be using a Falcon030 in 1995?
-
- How many of you believe that Atari's present keyboard in the Falcon030
- should be replaced with a better quality keyboard?
-
- What is your greatest disappointment with the Falcon030?
-
- What do you feel Atari should have included with the Falcon030
- that they left out?
-
- What do you think is the greatest advantage that the Falcon030
- has?
-
- Do you think Atari will still have this advantage in 1994?
-
- If you were Atari, how would you market this computer?
-
- Are you going to buy a Falcon030?
-
- If so, WHY?
-
- If not, WHY?
-
-
- If you were the chief designer of the Falcon030 33 MHz computer,
- what would you want it to have? Eg: Chips, Case, ports, etc.
-
- What markets would you concentrate with it?
-
- If you were the chief designer of the Falcon040 33 MHz+ computer,
- what would you want it to have?
-
- What markets would you concentrate with it?
-
-
- Do you have a Falcon030 computer already?
-
-
- Thank you and please keep it to the net if you can, if you can't
- post, send me e-mail.
-
- Len (aa399@cleveland.Freenet.edu)
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