Boing: I got an PPC Assembly language book and was mortified.
Why the hell do you WANT to code in assembly?! All RISC CPUs have arcane instruction sets because we have
compilers.
The world is moving to things like Java and PHP, my friend. The age of assembly is over. Deal with it.
Boing: Why have none of them thought to include a module to add elegant Amiga videographic features to the gfx cards they plan to slap in?
Foot the bill if you want a custom chip made.
Also, bitplanes are useless for most things these days. You'd be using brand new chunky modes for everything, and thus the whole old blitter architecture would have to be tossed out. What is there to salvage?
"Elegant" is a relative thing. The Amiga was elegant back when most things ran with 16-32 colors. Today things are different, and the Amiga architecture (and OS) is anything
but elegant and flexible enough for today's tasks.
Rogue: Hardware sprites?
Actually, I'd like to see that, again. Having graphics independent of the refresh rate of your monitor is a very, very handly thing to rid your games and stuff from flicker.
