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Originally Posted by Bruce Abbott
It's pretty obvious that the most 'critical' part of a chipset is the hardware.
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A chipset *is* hardware, so that's not what you mean, obviously.
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Originally Posted by Bruce Abbott
But of course it also needs to work with the software. In our case that is Amiga OS and any games or apps we want to run. In the case of people wanting to run PC software, they need a PC - not just Windows, but the hardware that Windows runs on.
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The games of today need primarily the infrastructure windows provides. The hardware implements it. So the important part is that interface, That is DirectX and not exactly the hardware underneath. The success of a machine is the software it runs, as this is why customers buy the machine. To solve particular problems - or entertain them. Which hardware that is - why does it matter?
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Originally Posted by Bruce Abbott
So which 'average PC graphics card' can I connect to my Amiga to get 'a lot better than AAA ever could'?
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About every single one? Even stone-old chips like the Cirrus5434 provide better features than AAA would have offered.