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Re: Northland coming to MorphOS
« on: April 11, 2003, 12:08:54 PM »
Pegasos MOS "Beta" users (it's not beta anymore...)
are about 300 and will become ~520 when the rest
of the boards arrive. Be sure that Epic will support OS4 as soon as it gets available, if it suits their needs.
Mos, together with OS4 will have about 1200
users imho, so it's logical to support both of them
sell more.
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Re: Northland coming to MorphOS
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2003, 12:16:07 PM »
I'm not a big fan of RTS games, I prefer FPS too but:
1) This game is demanding enough to need a Peg or
AOne.
2) RTS games are certainly *NOT* the same soup.
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Re: Northland coming to MorphOS
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2003, 12:19:55 PM »
Don't be too sure about that. When you run Amithlon,
EVERYTHING needs to be emulated, on faster hardware.
Emulated applications use emulated OS functions and emulated extension libraries. On MOS and OS4
native or emulated applications use TOTALLY PPC native libs. In everyday use the speed is about the
same as Amithlon on a VERY fast PC.
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Re: Northland coming to MorphOS
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2003, 12:22:55 PM »
Why make a version that would probably ONLY run on emulated hardware? What if the game uses
vmemory or other stuff only available on MOS or OS4? Do you know how much work it is to bring the
memory requirements down enough to not need it?
Especially on PC 1PS ports...
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