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- From: Steven_Hurdle@amusers.UUCP (Steven Hurdle)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: thoughts on AGA flight sims
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <Steven_Hurdle.00zf@amusers.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 02:02:42 PST
- Organization: AmUsers - The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC
- Lines: 57
-
- In a message dated Mon 18 Jan 93 2:51, Sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (jeff Hanna
- wrote:
-
- SH> Kesmai (makers of Air Warrior) is seriously thinking of doing an AGA
- SH> version
- SH> of Air Warrior that would be pretty much identical to the SVGA
- SH> verions
- SH> (640x480x8--possibly 640x400x8). Their decision will be base on the
- SH> sales of SVGA version (which is selling better than expected) and the
- SH> sales of AGA machines (they are encouraged by the number 1200s sold
- SH> in
- SH> Europe).
-
- Let's not forget that sales of A1200s in North America is equally
- promising! My contacts say that the situation is about the same
- everywhere. Even if most of them are going to Amigans who're upgrading,
- the exciting part of the equation is how accessible used ECS Amigas will be
- to first-time buyers in the used market as more and more people upgrade and
- dump old machines.
-
- SH> Matt Shaw and Bill Manders (JaegerSoft) are currently trying to
- SH> reverse
- SH> engineer AGA, so that they can do an AGA version of Fighter Duel Pro.
- SH>
- SH> They realize that C= wants people to go through the OS, and they
- SH> think
- SH> that with the new chipset they *MIGHT* be able to go throught the OS
- SH> and
- SH> still get 28fps, but they want to try banging the hardware directly
- SH> (as they
- SH> do with Fighter Duel Pro) and see what happens.
-
- SH> In their Category on GEnie, someone put it to them to come right out
- SH> and
- SH> say that the really want to do an AGA version. Matt's reply was,
-
- SH> "Well, I cannot post here the words that came out of Bill's mouth
- SH> when
- SH> he found out that C= won't release AGA specs."
-
- Hmmm... it's always annoyed me to no end that, even though we have this
- fabulous fully multitasking machine, that so many games don't multitask
- that it's almost hard to say that it truly is a fully multitasking machine.
- Some people don't much care whether their games can multitask or not, and I
- say simply that that's unfortunate that we don't agree, as it's very
- important to me. This is the time to make the plunge, and get the
- bloodied-nose if we must get one. With the improved routines in 3.0, the
- extra performance out of the blitter, and the fact that all AGA machines
- have an '020 as a minimum CPU, speed should be acceptible through the OS.
-
- -- Via DLG Pro v0.995
-
- Steven Hurdle <==> The Swindler [public replies only please]
- Writer of "Virtual Rumours", a rumour/news column in some club newsletters.
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-
- "Give me AGA, or give me DEATH!!!"
-