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They also might also have been waiting for a PC version of Lightwave to become available. If the pilot was aired in Feb 1993, it could have been in production for the year prior. |
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The are several sources that state it was the first season, not just the pilot. The first non-Amiga Lightwave wasn't released until 1995, so it makes sense to me that the first season was still Amiga based.
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There is always a good reason to bash the Amiga under the false flag of "objectivity"
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I was expecting the following:
256 colour AmigaOS to be as fast as 2 colour AmigaOS. non-interlaced 640-512 mode that wasn't slow like doublepal. sound chip that could play midi files and was more than 4 channels. a normal speed high density floppy drive a 030 and at least 4 mbs of fastmem. an external hdd port for a standard 3.5" hdd. |
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I means, you were at best 11 years old when the A1200 was released. And you expect us to believe that you were aware that a 68030 with fast ram would enhance significantly the A1200 or that you wanted a "non interlaced 640-512 mode that wasn't slow like doublepal" (yeah daddy, I would prefer this even if I'm 11 years old.). Last edited by sokolovic; 16 March 2024 at 21:47. |
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Interesting read on commodore final year from two insiders:
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But if you look what happened to all platforms at that time, surviving of Commodore is at least doubtful. Only Apple survived, but that only with money from Microsoft |
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21 March 2024, 20:59 | #3212 |
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The thing is 14mhz ec020 is not in the same class with a 386sx or dx. Or is it?
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1. AGA Blitter is still 16 bit like ECS/OCS Blitter. LISA and ALICE's bitplane fetch is 32-bit with up to 28 MB/s bandwidth i.e. 2 cycle 32-bit Fast Page RAM @ 14 Mhz. Want something better than Banshee on A1200? Try Reshoot Proxima 3. [ Show youtube player ] 2. From the LISA chip, four 64-bit hardware sprites can be used to create a background. [ Show youtube player ] Street Fighter II AGA: The impossible Amiga port, made possible. Nintendo started to create its SNES install base in 1990 and arrived in Amiga's core revenue European market in Q4 1992. Amiga AGA install base was starting from ground zero in Q4 1992 and the existing 32-bit CPU-equipped Amigas with OCS/ECS can't join the AGA install base e.g. no CD32 addon card for "big box" Amigas. 16-bit A500/600 acted as "Atari ST" against A1200/CD32 i.e. install base matters for 3rd party game developers. Meanwhile, existing full 32-bit 386DX CPU-equipped PCs can be upgraded with fast VGA like Trident 8900CL or Tseng Labs ET4000AX and join the PC's 32-bit 386DX/486 and fast VGA target platform install base. Amiga's game console nature doesn't work for bigbox desktop platforms. 2. 14 Mhz 68EC020 @ 14 Mhz performs like a 7 Mhz due to the shared Chip RAM clock cycle with the AGA chipset. A1200/CD32 needs Fast RAM to reduce this shared memory bandwidth design flaw. 68EC020 has a hardware barrel shifter. 3DO alternative has the key original Amiga engineers. 3DO has 50 MB/s sys bus bandwidth. |
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Apple's DTP market niche is larger than the Amiga's VideoToaster niche. |
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Lightwave raytracing engine for RISC CPUs was floating with notable users before Lightwave 5's 1995 Windows release.
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AA3000+ AGA was completed around Feb 1991. AA3000+ AGA doesn't have A600's PC-originated IDE and PCMCIA. Commodore wasted "more than 6 months" (cited DaveH's statement) on an unreleased ECS-based "A1000Jr" project. Without IDE and PCMCIA, AGA A500 could be launched in Q4 1991 or Q1 1992. ECS A600 is a waste of time. Commodore had a "read my lips, no new chips" directive during A3000's R&D phase, hence A3000 is stuck with ECS and 1989's A500 Rev 6A had a 2 MB Chip RAM jumper and ECS Agnus. A300 suffered a scope creep due to Commodore Germany's demand for IDE which resulted in A600's March 1992 release and A500's cancellation. A500P's cancellation wreaked Commodore's revenue stream during 1992. |
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Amiga had it's 68060 @ 50 Mhz experience in 1995. In 1995, Intel had its 3rd-generation classic Pentium improvements i.e. 120 Mhz and 133 Mhz models. Pentium Pro (P6) 150 Mhz was also released in 1995. For raytracing and compute power, it's either Pentium/Pentium Pro or the RISC hype. |
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386DX is a different story, but they were considerably more expensive. Most 386DX systems had cache RAM, ran at higher clock speeds (up to 40MHz), and had more RAM (typically 4MB). |
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For the 386: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I386 Quote:
http://amiga.resource.cx/perf/sysspe...cpu&order=mips 68EC020/14MHZ 4.53 MIPS So yes it is roughly the same, probably a bit better for the A1200 since the figures above are for a 20mhZ 386, not a 16mhz one EDIT (frome the same WP article) : Quote:
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