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Re: Is the Amiga architecture still relevant today?
« on: August 16, 2009, 12:44:03 AM »
I used some ideas found in the Amiga chipset in my Set-top-box gfx core which is in tens of thousands of homes today.

The ideas behind 2D gfx manipulation, particularly sprites and blitting has not changed for decades. The Amiga did certain things very well

Mobile phones & set-top-boxes very much use yester-year technology due to price constraints and memory constraints.
 

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Re: Is the Amiga architecture still relevant today?
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2009, 12:52:03 AM »
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But if you enjoy your pC today remeber that in PC world they were very inspired by Amiga technology.
Very much doubt that.

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Check diagrams of A3000 motherboards and how buses were conceived. It inspired all modern PC architecture diagrams... Check diagram blocks of CD32... It is the same of Playstation1...
Erm these are industry standard schematic diagrams used for decades before and after Amiga.

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Sony copied the same technology of CD32 but wisely added in Playstation vector graphics and a first 3d engine...
Rubbish. Like what? The inspiration for the technology of the PSOne was the SNES and the SuperFX chips. Sony were developing a CD addon for SNES to come out at the same time as the MegaCD when they chose to stop collaborating and make their own console. These decisions pre-date the CD32

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PCI BUS technology of PCs was inspired by Amiga Zorro BUS
Again, not sure how true this is.

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There is still an Amiga technology up to date and still unsurpassed: AUTOCONFIG!
If you really knew how it worked, you wouldn't say this.

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Plug and Play on PCs is nowadays a very stable and relying technology but in its early days it was called PLUG AND PRAY due to its instability...
More likely due to the fact there were many different hardware platforms, all interpreting the specs slightly different. AmigaOS has the luxury of one common hardware platform.

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Recognizing hardware peripherals it is the only modern techology were Amiga can teach a lesson to Peecees, because our Autoconfig System for recognizing and install on the fly hardware peripherals is still amazingly perfect... You can look at any ancient classic Amigas and take a look on how beautiful our system was....
But it had almost nothing to deal with!

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PC engineers should take a look on Autoconfig so then they could improve Plug and Play technology more than usual and reach a new era even in hardware peripherals.
Or read your post, laugh and then return to their day job.
« Last Edit: August 16, 2009, 12:56:07 AM by alexh »