Dave Haynie Interview - submit your questions

[carls]

1) What do you think of today's consumer graphics hardware, IE the stuff from nVidia and ATI? Would AAA in any way be comparable in 2D performance?
2) Was AAA chunky or planar?

[peroxidechicken]

What companies did Gould and Ali destroy next?  Where are they now?  

[downix]

Alright, get a chance to ask this:

Some of us got into a discussion about weither or not you designed any of the custom chips yourself or not.  So the question is simple, did you have any involvement in the creation of the custom chips, weither they were AGA, AAA or one of the control ASIC's like Budgie or Buster?

[DonnyEMU]

What do you think GPUs of today are missing ? Have you been keeping up with Nvidia's NV30's and above.

Most graphic cards today have a vector processor for doing matrix math, but they have a limited number of instructions available if you are programming real time pixel and vertex shader technology for them in shader languages (ASM shaders, CGshaders, etc.). how do you see barriers in bandwidth, instruction sets, etc.  being overcome?

In just about two years 200dpi lcd displays will be readily available on the market and one would expect that operatings systems might more tightly integrate 3d into their UI and maybe even directly support 3d capable cards and support these higher definition displays ..

What would you do if you were producing hardware to fit into this brave new world what would you do to improve the user experience..

[Acill]

I*'d love to know what happened to Ali and Gould. I cant find much info on the loosers.

Also Dave, What is your favorite Amiga of all time? I am a huge fan of tha A3000 and still have mine. I just about got a fully working A3000+ at Software Hut, but the price was just to much to take it.

How to you feel about the A4000 in relation to the A3000. It's allways felt like a rushed system to me, and is why I never got one. AGA didnt do much for me which was another reason not to get that A3000+

Do you have any tips for us A3000 users out here?

Thanks Dave!

[Hooligan_DCS]

You worked for Commodore back then and we all know what happened. Looking at things now, in 2003, several years after, do you think Amiga Inc. is doing a good job when it comes to present and future of Amiga/AmigaOS?

[tormedhammaren]

How do you think the Amiga hardware would look today if Commodore hadn't went bankrupt? How would the Amiga graphics system look? Would it be non standard and based on AGA/AAA or would it be more like SVGA? What about the bus system? And, last but least, what processor architechure could the Amiga have been using?

How well did you like the AmigaOS and how well do you like it now?


Thank you

[Floid]

Okay, a little more seriously...

Name three products that, by all rights, should exist today but don't.  'Hardware,' A/V, communications, flying cars, whatever -- as someone who's been in the 'industry' for so long, what do you find most egregious about its present state?

[shIva]

some more from me - hope they are not too old or already answered :

- how are you ?
- what are your future plans ?
- where can i get the dvd you did ?
- which hardware do you prefer today ?
- what happened to the hardware you designed, that never was put into production ?
- do you think systems like a1/peggy have a chance ?

[Jose]

Ok since this interview is with Dave...

- Do you still use Amigas?

- True multitasking, almost instant booting times, real computing fun for the users that want to take computing to a further level (just look at a M$ book and I'll want to through up...), no need to "shut down", amazing responsiveness, just to mention some of the stuff that Windows  still doesn't have. Do you think there could still be some similar innovation at the hardware level, like the custom chips did at their time, or the maket is completely saturated?

- Do you think the Amiga has a future with this, or those "special "features in the AOS will just be finally "imitated" if people start to notice them...?

- Who owns the rights to AAA? (I know it's dated:))

- Probably just for the fun of it,  how much far from completion was the AAA chipset, and could it be implemented with toadays electronics, probably with some modifications... Would that reequire a big budget?

Cheers  

[Kees]

In 24 hour this thread will be closed, so if you still want to ask a question .. submit it now   :-D

[weirdami]

Do you have a dream OS in mind that would blow everything away, or is OS (and computers, for that matter) design pretty much where it's going to be for a long time coming? Are there features that you'd like to see that are in no computers right now, but should be, given that they would create a paradigm shift in the computing world for the better?


Forgive the Video Toaster reference. :-)

[DonnyEMU]

Reading thru the Dave Haynie archives online and especially the "hombre" documents, it's clear that Commodore saw AAA as the last of the Amigas and "Hombre" was a completely new computer and wouldn't have been even called an Amiga. It sounds like an ultra cool HP workstation that would have competed well with Sun boxes of the time.

Did Commodore see "Hombre" as a new generation machine and NOT an Amiga (can't see that it was in anyway compatible) or even an answer to the power mac..

-Don

[Kees]

10 hours left ...

[redrumloa]

Dave: Do you have anymore prototype or rare Amiga items in your basement?

[Billsey]

You've been through a lot of rough times, Dave. All I want to know is how are you holding up; and is there anything that you would like people to pray about in interceding for you?