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Forum: Amiga scene 25 March 2024, 16:56
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Posted By Gorf
But what if the monster was blue instead?

But what if the monster was blue instead?
Forum: Amiga scene 15 March 2024, 13:06
Replies: 30
Views: 3,077
Posted By Gorf
Probably along these lines - yes. As it is a...

Probably along these lines - yes.

As it is a Library, it will work in a synchronous mode and whatever it does: AOS will pause during that until the invoked function is done.

To really work in...
Forum: Amiga scene 12 March 2024, 20:33
Replies: 30
Views: 3,077
Posted By Gorf
PiStorm?

PiStorm?
Forum: Amiga scene 12 March 2024, 20:30
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Posted By Gorf
https://eab.abime.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=...

https://eab.abime.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=81807&d=1710271682

Prehistoric chemtrail detected :D
Forum: Amiga scene 24 February 2024, 16:47
Replies: 871
Views: 66,631
Posted By Gorf
From this article (my own translation): In...

From this article (my own translation):

In how far these new machines will have some success in the market is yet to be seen:
The very powerful A4000 is due to its high price (about 4000 DM - is...
Forum: Amiga scene 24 February 2024, 16:23
Replies: 871
Views: 66,631
Posted By Gorf
A software abstraction layer is something, that...

A software abstraction layer is something, that needs to be affordable in terms of speed and at the same time have a good level of completeness in terms of features. Graphics library on AA was...
Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion 20 February 2024, 12:22
Replies: 119
Views: 16,111
Posted By Gorf
No but in 98, when the Nuon was planned to be...

No but in 98, when the Nuon was planned to be released and the PlayStation 2 was not to be released in the same year and DVD was still a new thing.

It is hard to find numbers, since the NUON...
Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion 20 February 2024, 04:00
Replies: 119
Views: 16,111
Posted By Gorf
90/91 MPEG-1 was just not there yet ...the...

90/91 MPEG-1 was just not there yet ...the world's first mass produced decoder chip was the C-Cube CL450 from 1992.
And when it was out it was just worse than VHS.
LD has a least a very good...
Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion 20 February 2024, 00:26
Replies: 119
Views: 16,111
Posted By Gorf
They could have gone LaserDisc instead - this...

They could have gone LaserDisc instead - this would of course be more expensive, but a LD-player combined with an Amiga is a powerful combination.
(AmigaVision is even capable of driving...
Forum: Amiga scene 17 February 2024, 03:46
Replies: 871
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Posted By Gorf
But none of these were games you would not have...

But none of these were games you would not have on other platforms as well.
Nobody would have bought a playstation for that.



But is was exactly for games like Ridge Racer, the people bought...
Forum: Amiga scene 17 February 2024, 01:34
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Views: 66,631
Posted By Gorf
Sure - compatibility is in general preferable to...

Sure - compatibility is in general preferable to have. But that was not the point I was trying to make here:

The question was, was compatibility absolutely necessary for a game console and...
Forum: Amiga scene 17 February 2024, 00:44
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Posted By Gorf
I was answering to: which I interpreted...

I was answering to:


which I interpreted maybe to widely
Forum: Amiga scene 17 February 2024, 00:25
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Posted By Gorf
OK, that's true. Probably even until Doom. ...

OK, that's true. Probably even until Doom.
Still owning and using one is one thing ... buying a new one or upgrading an other.
The exodus started (slowly at first) around that year or 93 - and so...
Forum: Amiga scene 17 February 2024, 00:01
Replies: 871
Views: 66,631
Posted By Gorf
A huge catalog of 12 games ... and only 6 of them...

A huge catalog of 12 games ... and only 6 of them showed a little bit of what the hardware could do. Others were e.g. Mahjong, "TwinBee Taisen Puzzle Drama" (like candy crush) or a slot machine...
Forum: Amiga scene 16 February 2024, 23:42
Replies: 871
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Posted By Gorf
Have you been an Amiga user in the 90s??? I...

Have you been an Amiga user in the 90s???
I have been and it was clear as sunshine, that people were switching to other platforms. Either PC or consoles ... or both.
Amigas got privatly sold off at...
Forum: Amiga scene 16 February 2024, 11:22
Replies: 871
Views: 66,631
Posted By Gorf
Exactly. Moore's law is coming slowly to an...

Exactly.
Moore's law is coming slowly to an end, and even if new CPUs and GPUs are still so much more powerful each new generation, the perception in so longer that stark.

the differences every...
Forum: Amiga scene 15 February 2024, 17:39
Replies: 871
Views: 66,631
Posted By Gorf
Which might be quite useful in case of the CD32,...

Which might be quite useful in case of the CD32, or for games in general.
This would be an option and not tied in general.
Forum: Amiga scene 15 February 2024, 16:55
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Posted By Gorf
Take VRAM as "normal" FastRAM and add a RAM-DAC...

Take VRAM as "normal" FastRAM and add a RAM-DAC with CLUT and you can use that portion of RAM as a dumb framebuffer ... no bus needed.
CPU has to do all the timings and blitting and so on..

Or...
Forum: Amiga scene 15 February 2024, 10:22
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Views: 66,631
Posted By Gorf
Except for all the customers of DEC, HP, SUN,...

Except for all the customers of DEC, HP, SUN, SGI, Apple, Atari ... and even Commodore.

The PC was not an instant victory, but a slow march to power.
In the second half of the 80s the...
Forum: Amiga scene 14 February 2024, 23:53
Replies: 871
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Posted By Gorf
Well ... I guess in this thread I is actually...

Well ... I guess in this thread I is actually "could" and "would" ... around 91/92 to be specific.
Forum: Amiga scene 14 February 2024, 15:47
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Posted By Gorf
True ... in some sense today's gfx is more like a...

True ... in some sense today's gfx is more like a giant "text mode", as it looks up some texture (=character), fetches it and puts it on the right place on screen



The MOS 8563 VDC (C128)...
Forum: Amiga scene 13 February 2024, 22:19
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Posted By Gorf
Fascinating ... sadly this trick was probably not...

Fascinating ... sadly this trick was probably not well known nor directly supported by the OS ... a missed opportunity
Forum: Amiga scene 13 February 2024, 18:25
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Posted By Gorf
OCS? Are you sure? How?

OCS? Are you sure?
How?
Forum: Amiga scene 12 February 2024, 23:16
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Posted By Gorf
So in your estimation, what kind of machine...

So in your estimation, what kind of machine should Commodore have released for the US market? Was there anything besides the A4000's limited audience?
Would a AA1000 (slim case) has better chances...
Forum: Amiga scene 12 February 2024, 19:07
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Posted By Gorf
Commodore treated them the same, which was part...

Commodore treated them the same, which was part of the mistake, since German users would have preferred some higher specs and would also have paid for that.



More true would be the CDTV and the...
Forum: Amiga scene 12 February 2024, 13:54
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Posted By Gorf
I am really not sure about that. I don't think...

I am really not sure about that. I don't think Commodore understood the market correctly - the huge loss they accumulated hints to that.

If true in some places like e.g. UK, it was certainly not...
Forum: Amiga scene 12 February 2024, 02:39
Replies: 871
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Posted By Gorf
http://aminet.net/package/dev/misc/CharMode ...

http://aminet.net/package/dev/misc/CharMode

CharMode shows how the Amiga graphics hardware can generate
grid-based graphics modes with animated fonts and automatic
rendering from a byte code to...
Forum: Amiga scene 11 February 2024, 21:55
Replies: 871
Views: 66,631
Posted By Gorf
:confused Amiga had always had so called...

:confused
Amiga had always had so called high-res modes with 640 horizontal pixels (plus overscan)
So that is already there in the A1000.
The problem is the low number of lines in non-interlaced...
Forum: Amiga scene 11 February 2024, 18:21
Replies: 871
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Posted By Gorf
a) 386 machines in 92 where much faster than a...

a) 386 machines in 92 where much faster than a A1200 without fast ram. Even the SX machines, which usually compensated the 16bit bus bottleneck with external cache.

b) we already talked about the...
Forum: Amiga scene 11 February 2024, 15:53
Replies: 871
Views: 66,631
Posted By Gorf
The majority here in this forum is very focused...

The majority here in this forum is very focused on games, low price and viewing the Amiga as game console with easy copy mechanism for games....

But the aftermarket of the Amiga in the 90s tells a...
Forum: Amiga scene 11 February 2024, 15:13
Replies: 871
Views: 66,631
Posted By Gorf
GVP, Phase5, CSA, M-Tec, Microbotics/Paravision,...

GVP, Phase5, CSA, M-Tec, Microbotics/Paravision, BSC

They all released turbo boards in 93, meaning they got to work as soon as the A1200 was released. (many more followed one year later)
They...
Forum: Amiga scene 11 February 2024, 13:18
Replies: 3,805
Views: 508,712
Posted By Gorf
Yes MacOS did utilize a MMU from System 7 on, but...

Yes MacOS did utilize a MMU from System 7 on, but only as a provider vor virtual memory as in disk swapping and afaik not for memory protection.
(But that was missing in some models like the Mac LC)
Forum: Amiga scene 11 February 2024, 01:57
Replies: 871
Views: 66,631
Posted By Gorf
yes It is hard to find a slower dog...

yes


It is hard to find a slower dog released in late 1992
Forum: Amiga scene 11 February 2024, 01:38
Replies: 3,805
Views: 508,712
Posted By Gorf
[/QUOTE] I really don't recall it being that...

[/QUOTE]

I really don't recall it being that unstable - actually in my impression it was at least as stable as AmigaOS or Windows 3.11 or even Windows 95.

Windows wasn't that great before NT...
Forum: Amiga scene 10 February 2024, 23:10
Replies: 871
Views: 66,631
Posted By Gorf
4/ tiny write-buffer (two longwords) and small...

4/ tiny write-buffer (two longwords) and small flexible read cache (32k)
Problems: costs hard to estimate in comparison to FastRAM controller and SIMM slots
Advantage: can also cache ROM area,...
Forum: Amiga scene 10 February 2024, 22:01
Replies: 871
Views: 66,631
Posted By Gorf
And there was demand for such an expansion. We...

And there was demand for such an expansion. We can assume Microbotics made some money with it - like other turbo card vendors did.

So for this package we have two companies, two independent...
Forum: Amiga scene 10 February 2024, 20:41
Replies: 218
Views: 44,319
Posted By Gorf
the AROS team made some design choices early on...

the AROS team made some design choices early on that broke binary compatibility and was only fixed much later by the ABIv1 development
Not to mention they were at first only targeting x86 and there...
Forum: Amiga scene 10 February 2024, 19:30
Replies: 218
Views: 44,319
Posted By Gorf
sure, like the Linux kernel has no serious and...

sure, like the Linux kernel has no serious and standardized development for decades .... oh wait :shocked

and like there are no forks in closed source Amiga OS ...(p.OS, MorphOS, OS4, 3.9, 3.2)
Forum: Amiga scene 10 February 2024, 19:10
Replies: 871
Views: 66,631
Posted By Gorf
AIBB benchmarks: ...

AIBB benchmarks:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZioFozN2KPCD3A2duOH_x1qbPXngobz8GSXeRV1trC0

that is what all the fuzz is about in this thread: without FastRAM the 68020 in the A1200 is...
Forum: Amiga scene 10 February 2024, 17:55
Replies: 871
Views: 66,631
Posted By Gorf
We have been through this so many times, no? ...

We have been through this so many times, no?

Real world speed up for the A1200 without FastRAM is around x2 ... with FastRAM its about x4
(compared to a A500)
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