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- From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Message-ID: <36846@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 18:55:33 GMT
- References: <36661@cbmvax.commodore.com> <BxGv79.4J3@visix.com>
- Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
- Organization: Commodore-Amiga, Inc. West Chester, PA.
- Lines: 46
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- In article <BxGv79.4J3@visix.com> brett@visix.com writes:
- >One thing that every person from C= has always just glossed over is that
- >with game development, publishers go with platforms they can sell on and
- >make profits. Your hardware bangers are doing things that the OS just can
- >not do on the stock machines making up the market. You can talk all you
- >want about AGA, 68020/68040 machines, but until you get these machines in
- >the hands of ALL the european Amiga owners, you are SOL.
-
- We can only encourage folks to program the "right" way. And that
- generally involves encouraging coding for compatibility. To a significant
- extent, we are succeeding. And you are effectively observing that this
- is largely due to the fact that we're starting to have a significant
- number of different kinds of machines in _real_ numbers available.
- That indeed does drive the market for software, and the desired effect
- is achieved.
-
- None of that obliges us in any way to release AGA docs if in our
- belief doing so would be detrimental. And remember, we know a few
- things about future products that may not be 100% clear to the
- average developer.
-
- >For the OS developer (running MACH, for example), the Amiga is not a
- >feature, but hinderence. Does AmigaUNIX 2.1 SystemV run as a client of
- >AmigaDOS? I would concider UNIX to be an OS. 8^)
-
- The OS implementer can gain considerable advantage as far as graphics
- support if he were to go to the extra effort to build his OS on top
- of AmigaOS. This won't be possible in all cases, or necessarily
- easy in any of them. But when we get RTG, that would spare the OS
- writer the need to create drivers for all boards we already cover.
-
- In those cases where it is not possible, a serious OS writer should
- contact CATS concerning obtaining an AGA driver for their OS, or the
- information necessary to write one. In essence, the problem of
- AGA support is no different than supporting some arbitrary 3rd party
- graphics board; you have to make a special arrangement with the
- supplier of the display device so a driver can be born.
-
- >Brett Bourbin \ / /(_ /\/ 11440 Commerce Park Drive
-
- Peter
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- Peter Cherna, User Interface Development Group, Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
- {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!peter peter@cbmvax.commodore.com
- My opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of my employer.
- "I believe it's bad luck to be superstitious."
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