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Forum: Amiga scene 20 April 2024, 06:51
Replies: 3,784
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Posted By Promilus
Well they didn't get away with that, exactly...

Well they didn't get away with that, exactly because of that, it doesn't really matter how much did you enjoy actual A1200 if it was fairly simple to make it much better with acceptable cost...
Forum: Amiga scene 19 April 2024, 17:18
Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,186
Posted By Promilus
@pandy - add him to ignore list, this thread...

@pandy - add him to ignore list, this thread looks a lot nicer when there's no wall of text. Mine, yours, his - mostly his...
@Thomas_Richter - RTG on PiStorm hardly uses ANY hardware acceleration...
Forum: Amiga scene 18 April 2024, 19:02
Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,186
Posted By Promilus
you do listen to your own advice and stop...

you do listen to your own advice and stop spamming irrelevant PC BS
Forum: Amiga scene 18 April 2024, 16:59
Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,186
Posted By Promilus
Hammer - you're just doing nonsense comparison......

Hammer - you're just doing nonsense comparison... you want good 2D? You already have it in AAA - everything is faster. A lot faster memory, much more memory, more DMA channels, wider blitter and...
Forum: Amiga scene 16 April 2024, 17:56
Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,186
Posted By Promilus
@pandy71 - took you long enough to notice ;)

@pandy71 - took you long enough to notice ;)
Forum: Amiga scene 15 April 2024, 18:05
Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,186
Posted By Promilus
Lorraine was bunch of standard logic, then...

Lorraine was bunch of standard logic, then Commodore went ahead and integrated it inside few ASICs... half of decade earlier than PC cloners begun integrating standard IBM PC components into actual...
Forum: Amiga scene 14 April 2024, 18:09
Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,186
Posted By Promilus
Let me remind you which part of Bruce opinion...

Let me remind you which part of Bruce opinion we're talking about in such length...

Now... do you agree or disagree with that statement? So trying to sell all C= limitations (chipset spread over...
Forum: Amiga scene 14 April 2024, 10:23
Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,186
Posted By Promilus
Current cards are hardly VGA... they do usually...

Current cards are hardly VGA... they do usually revert to VGA-like behavior with no driver loaded. So like boot screens etc. But they are much more advanced. Even ARM solutions like Mali could've...
Forum: Amiga scene 14 April 2024, 09:58
Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,186
Posted By Promilus
Look at the pinout and you will know. It needs...

Look at the pinout and you will know. It needs clock and quadrature clock. Easy peasy. RGA? Same. Interrupts? No problem. DMAL? That's the only part slightly more challenging. Slightly. And as far as...
Forum: Amiga scene 13 April 2024, 18:00
Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,186
Posted By Promilus
And neither are you with all that unecessary PC...

And neither are you with all that unecessary PC crap either NEC or modern PCs. Modern consoles. And Hombre assumptions which are obvious white lies to anyone actually knowing that stuff except of you...
Forum: Amiga scene 13 April 2024, 17:56
Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,186
Posted By Promilus
You can use CIA, Paula and Denise with either of...

You can use CIA, Paula and Denise with either of those as well. Why are you so determined to enforce such blatant lies?

Z80 comes from i8080 which is the basis for 8085 for which most of those...
Forum: Amiga scene 13 April 2024, 06:58
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Posted By Promilus
Well Soviet Union along with many companies...

Well Soviet Union along with many companies worldwide did produce 8086 microprocessor (and similarly same happened with 68000) - that's not something which turns 8086 into "standard part". And most...
Forum: Amiga scene 12 April 2024, 18:39
Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,186
Posted By Promilus
Intel 8237 is as much custom chip as CIA (and...

Intel 8237 is as much custom chip as CIA (and funny enough CIA itself does kind of resemble both intel and motorola IO devices). Same could be said on many PC components like floppy controller which...
Forum: Amiga scene 12 April 2024, 17:18
Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,186
Posted By Promilus
So like Philippines and Malaysia used by...

So like Philippines and Malaysia used by Commodore as well? And what kind of chipset you mean integrated "standard ICs" in PC? I mean like... for example Akiko vs Gary or Gayle?
Forum: Amiga scene 10 April 2024, 17:24
Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,186
Posted By Promilus
Ok... so you mean great Amiga had things like...

Ok... so you mean great Amiga had things like Settlers II or Warcraft II? No? Aaaaa... and yet exactly because Mac was not so hardware bound WE DID get those games using mac emulators.


BS -...
Forum: Amiga scene 10 April 2024, 05:55
Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,186
Posted By Promilus
So f.. what!? When it suits you - you compare...

So f.. what!? When it suits you - you compare Amiga to PC. When it doesn't you keep saying it is entirely different beast. Everyone here already knows a company using all the same processors as Amiga...
Forum: Amiga scene 09 April 2024, 21:04
Replies: 63
Views: 5,816
Posted By Promilus
There's nothing moving "forward" with Cloanto...

There's nothing moving "forward" with Cloanto when it comes to new OS for either classic Amiga or PPC.
Forum: Amiga scene 09 April 2024, 17:21
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Posted By Promilus
That's funny because OEM works exactly like that....

That's funny because OEM works exactly like that. They cut corners, they cut expenses in most trivial matter. And then they spend millions in absolutely most idiotic ways...


It kind of is like...
Forum: Amiga scene 08 April 2024, 18:37
Replies: 3,784
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Posted By Promilus
Sure, it was a design which was not centered on...

Sure, it was a design which was not centered on high performance of 16bit apps, it was a hack on existing 8bit 6502 to address more memory and maybe improve performance slightly. It was hardly 16bit...
Forum: Amiga scene 08 April 2024, 05:51
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Posted By Promilus
MIPS doesn't tell anything... I can have AVR...

MIPS doesn't tell anything... I can have AVR 20MHz giving out nearly 20 MIPS. It could barely get 1DMIPS probably. Because MIPS only shows how many instructions per second processor can do, DMIPS...
Forum: Amiga scene 07 April 2024, 19:15
Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,186
Posted By Promilus
@AestheticDebris - sure, but neither is Amiga... ...

@AestheticDebris - sure, but neither is Amiga...
On the other hand 7MHz 68000 is already faster than 3.58MHz Ricoh 5A22 which is 16bit version of 6502 (but has 8 bit data bus and 2 address buses,...
Forum: Amiga scene 07 April 2024, 08:35
Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,186
Posted By Promilus
Yeah, and you keep spamming us with words of ppl...

Yeah, and you keep spamming us with words of ppl unrelated to that project when Jay Miner in his interview after he left Commodore did explicitly say Ranger chipset was FINISHED AND TESTED. Much...
Forum: support.Hardware 29 March 2024, 08:54
Replies: 16
Views: 847
Posted By Promilus
When it comes to FPGA based solution there's...

When it comes to FPGA based solution there's LiteSATA core already... has been for quite a while now. But - SATA interface itself is not the biggest issue here. To do data transactions without CPU...
Forum: Amiga scene 28 March 2024, 17:54
Replies: 3,784
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Posted By Promilus
It's not like AAA was top secret. Neither was C65...

It's not like AAA was top secret. Neither was C65 or A300... some of the projects were released although in much different form, some were nearly finalized (and scrapped), and some were paused then...
Forum: Amiga scene 26 March 2024, 08:02
Replies: 3,784
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Posted By Promilus
The problem is ... PC wasn't nearly as widely...

The problem is ... PC wasn't nearly as widely used as "home computer" back in late 80s. It was too expensive to be that and had to be equipped with yet another expensive add-ons to play half a decent...
Forum: support.Hardware 16 March 2024, 10:42
Replies: 7
Views: 583
Posted By Promilus
-5V was originally introduced in machines which...

-5V was originally introduced in machines which had at least some logic based on DTL. It was generally only used for analogue parts beyond that and afterwards -5V became unused since there's -12V as...
Forum: Amiga scene 14 March 2024, 06:12
Replies: 30
Views: 3,054
Posted By Promilus
Wasn't there FBlit for ppl with chipset, fast...

Wasn't there FBlit for ppl with chipset, fast memory and decent CPU exactly so colorful OS can be made usable and with plenty CHIPRAM to spare? I guess implementing something like that natively on...
Forum: Amiga scene 29 February 2024, 06:08
Replies: 34
Views: 2,270
Posted By Promilus
How hardware t&l which is DX7 feature works on...

How hardware t&l which is DX7 feature works on everything made prior to that? It does not. Just as pixel and vertex shaders don't work on titles where there are shaders, yes, but done by CPU. E.g....
Forum: Amiga scene 25 February 2024, 15:47
Replies: 871
Views: 66,370
Posted By Promilus
@Thorham - it's not practical from the reasons I...

@Thorham - it's not practical from the reasons I already mentioned. Drawing schematic of IC manually was all ok during 6502 development but that's ~4.5k transistors. 68060 is 2.5M (more than whole...
Forum: Amiga scene 25 February 2024, 13:24
Replies: 871
Views: 66,370
Posted By Promilus
I wouldn't say API/driver overhead is negligible...

I wouldn't say API/driver overhead is negligible nowadays. I'd say that's a fair tradeoff between development speed and actual performance. Because I do believe banging RTX4080 registers would...
Forum: Amiga scene 24 February 2024, 09:38
Replies: 871
Views: 66,370
Posted By Promilus
@Thomas Richter Sure you don't now. But you did...

@Thomas Richter
Sure you don't now. But you did bang VGA registers directly back in 92 so I find that argument rather amusing. Yes, there was a point to go and use abstraction layer at some point...
Forum: Amiga scene 24 February 2024, 07:03
Replies: 871
Views: 66,370
Posted By Promilus
@oscar_ates - it seems Haynie forgot AAA wasn't...

@oscar_ates - it seems Haynie forgot AAA wasn't AA compatible so what's the actual point of bringing ECS backward compatible platform with new features and then release another ECS backward...
Forum: Amiga scene 17 February 2024, 10:27
Replies: 871
Views: 66,370
Posted By Promilus
PS mythical compatibility is absurd. Sure PS2 was...

PS mythical compatibility is absurd. Sure PS2 was generally compatible with PS1 but AFAIK there was a tiny bit of problem with PS1 titles and PS2 memcard (so usually you had to get PS1 memcard as...
Forum: Amiga scene 16 February 2024, 06:17
Replies: 871
Views: 66,370
Posted By Promilus
Any comment how it support your argument? PS2 is...

Any comment how it support your argument? PS2 is best selling stationary game console of all times. Which means no modern console sales figures can reach PS2 level so year after year it's best...
Forum: Amiga scene 15 February 2024, 06:48
Replies: 871
Views: 66,370
Posted By Promilus
That's fine BS here... MCA - fee for IBM for...

That's fine BS here...
MCA - fee for IBM for both mobo vendors and card vendors... yeah. Cost of connector was twice as high as ISA iirc. Yeah. Also support for new cards had to be done through BIOS...
Forum: Amiga scene 13 February 2024, 06:09
Replies: 871
Views: 66,370
Posted By Promilus
PCI ain't IBM PC genuine standard. SIMM ain't...

PCI ain't IBM PC genuine standard.
SIMM ain't IBM PC genuine standard. PCI was made by intel and adopted by PC manufacturers. SIMM was made by some PC cloner and adopted widely. Genuine IBM PC...
Forum: Amiga scene 11 February 2024, 17:35
Replies: 871
Views: 66,370
Posted By Promilus
Talking about big amiga line is all good but...

Talking about big amiga line is all good but that's beside the point here. VideoToaster, DraCo and Casablanca are 3rd party solutions and basically only VideoToaster was the one driving Commodore's...
Forum: Amiga scene 11 February 2024, 13:10
Replies: 871
Views: 66,370
Posted By Promilus
@eXeler0 - This thread and one before it I...

@eXeler0 - This thread and one before it I already posted my opinion. A500 was successful because it indeed was treated mostly like a floppy based gaming console with keyboard. Sure it was possible...
Forum: Amiga scene 11 February 2024, 11:42
Replies: 871
Views: 66,370
Posted By Promilus
In that price range there was none. In a market...

In that price range there was none. In a market as a whole - sure, everything from Archimedes 3010 through Mac LC II up to every actually fresh PC configuration...
Forum: Amiga scene 22 January 2024, 16:58
Replies: 3,784
Views: 506,186
Posted By Promilus
Someone should've but most ppl don't care. The...

Someone should've but most ppl don't care. The only fast ram controller on Amiga is A3k and 4k with Ramsey. Fairly slow and slightly buggy.
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