| From: | Rudi Chiarito |
| Date: | 29 Aug 2000 at 22:33:16 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Quake, Doom & Tunnel - Impressive! |
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:42:06PM +0200, Stefan Robl wrote:
> Approximately 28FPS under a PII-333 is (using software rendering and a rough
> port) IMHO really not bad!!!
If you consider that (AFAIK) lines are plotted pixel by pixel by the CPU
and, to make things worse, using generic C code, then things aren't that
bad. Especially if you also consider that Quake (if Quake is what you're
talking about) relies a lot on the FPU and the current translator isn't
optimized at all for FP arithmetic.
That aside, though, 28 FPS aren't that many and there's a lot of room for
performance improvements. Anyone willing to accept the challenge?
> -> But there is one important question left:
> When can we all expect the real (final?) GUI-System for the new Amiga?
When it's ready. ;)
> When do we get sound-support?
There's some basic sound support, but this is getting revamped (from many
sides).
> And is there a newer version of vpcc than the one under the SDK
> available?
Publically available, no. Next version of the SDK will sport improved
compilers/tools/libraries. I can't tell you any dates, as it all depends
on several factors.