| From: | Martin Norman |
| Date: | 29 Jul 2001 at 12:27:47 |
| Subject: | Re: Amigactive Issue 23 |
On 29-Jul-01, Andrew Korn wrote:
> I think the important thing to observe here is that we will, very shortly,
> be running classic Amiga software on hardware with significantly greater
> capability in graphics, hardware support and sheer processing horsepower
> than any currently existing Amiga. I believe this is a very important step
> in ensuring a useable and viable transitional environment as we head
> towards the AmigaDE content layer and OS5.0. As exciting as the PPC
> environment for AmigaOne is, the ubiquity of x86 hardware quite simply
> means a much larger potential market; there are a lot of people who are
> going to be tempted back to the Amiga fold who might not have been
> prepared to buy an AmigaOne but would certainly buy the OS to run on
> existing hardware.
I don't know if this sounds a bit previous but surely having an x86 version
of the OS will seriously damage AmigaOne sales because quite a high
proportion of the Amiga community own a PC (admittedly I'm not one). I bet
Eyetech weren't too impressed.
> The only disadvantage I can see is that this is something I've been
> harping on about for ages. Delighted as I am to see Amiga Inc. take this
> step I've wanted taken for so long, I won't be able to harp on about it
> any more - there goes another Rant & Rave topic!
A disadvantage that I see (unless I am just being thick here) is that many
coders want to write 3D games etc which will run faster under AmigaOS
4.x/x86 than AmigaDE so which development environment do they aim for, DE?
Regards,
Martin :-)
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