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Re: Time to say goodbye.
« on: August 13, 2003, 07:10:20 PM »
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Jaruzel wrote:
I can't wait any longer. Still no AmigaOS4... which for me means no AmigaOne. (I'm not a linux fan).

So it is with sadness I bid you all goodbye. I haven't even been logging into Amiga.org for about 3 weeks now, so the writing has already been on the wall.

I need to move on with my life, and once again put my Amiga-Love back in the closet...

It's been fun.

-Jar.


Awww... come on!! You've still got AROS :-)

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Re: Time to say goodbye.
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2003, 08:18:44 PM »
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if you are going to go, go and don't look back.Iam going to hang about for OS4 and if things don't improve after the release it will not be long before i call it a day.I have no real desire to be one of minority anymore waiting years for software to be ported and games,drivers e.t.c.


Other than the last 3 years... :-)

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Re: Time to say goodbye.
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2003, 10:41:57 AM »
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PS: I think I'll start an anti-AROS rant to counter bloodline's pro-AROS rants.


Until I can run my existing Amiga 68k binaries on AROS, it's vapour. There, it's out. Now I feel better.


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Re: Time to say goodbye.
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2003, 01:59:38 AM »
@Woosh777

You can emulate the ChipSet's registers no problem. You can set up these virtual registers that will emulate the Chipset functions.

But you won't get the timing right. The Whole Emulation would be out of sync. The reason why UAE is slow is because it has to keep the chipset timing in prefect sync with the CPU... take away the Chipset emualtion and you get Amithlon (MorphOS and AOS4) 68k emulation speeds.

You can't design a custon Gaphics chipset anymore... The whole Amiga 1000 was brought in for around $35 Million... that's how much one chip from Nvidia or ATI cost to develop (probably more given inflation)...
A custom sound chip isn't needed as a good DPS will do the job...

Basicly Custom hardware is a dead end (if you needed use UAE), and custom hardware is only any good if you have a massive budget (bigger than Nvidia) and a good return...

Frankly, Neither Eyetech nor Genesi could afford to have custom hardware.... and Neither Hyperion nor MorphOS want to be bogged down with Custom chip emualtion.

AROS does plan to have a highly integrated emualtor for games, but you need to talk to "The Emulator Guy" about that.