Amiga demo fans are in for a rude awakening. Future demos will be much fatter and require more resources. Forget about amazing mega demos that fit on a disk or two.
Amiga Inc. is hellbent on removing Amiga hardware features like Sprites, Playfields, color-compressed video modes, Copperlists and raster-synced events.
The AI solution? Mate your old true Amiga mobo to the new boards.
But even then it may end up a hack instead of a real unification (they've been strangely silent on how it will work), and you can expect them to de-emphasize said features, instead encouraging programmers to write programs to extoll the virtues of the (gag me!) Shape Tables and brute-force methodd of moving grpahics around. Sigh.
The Mac and Windows world *talk* about Sprites, but only because they don't actually KNOW what a real sprite is (nimrods). All these AGP cards we're going to be stuck with, don't ACTUALLY have any real Sprites. We're going to have #&% BOB-like objects and we're supposed to act like that's good enough. Cripes, it's like having an Atari ST with a PPC chip. Yippee.
