Posted on 19-May-2000 07:17 GMT by Christian Kemp | 56 comments View flat View list |
Cybes writes:
In an attempt to gain further information regarding the release date of the AmiJoe I have been in contact with a variety of places. Read more below.
Blittersoft UK informed me that the units were ready and waiting on Haage & Partner (presumably for a license for the PPC 68k emulator+warpup). Bill Mc Ewen mentioned in a speech a short while back that they were working though with Met@box to lower the cost of the Amijoes to be around the 250$us or so mark by using as many standardized parts as possible. This still left the question of when it would come out so i then contacted met@box themselves, in which their international rep ("Susan") replied: "Please keep an eye on the website. I have no further info at present". Does anyone know anything more on this matter regarding its release?
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List of all comments to this articleSorted by date, most recent at bottom |
Comment 1 | Han van Gelderen | | 18-May-2000 22:00 GMT |
Comment 2 | Ben Hermans/Hyperion | | 18-May-2000 22:00 GMT |
Comment 3 | Jaeson Koszarsky | | 18-May-2000 22:00 GMT |
Comment 4 | Henrik Mikael Kristensen | | 18-May-2000 22:00 GMT |
Comment 5 | Dimitris Panokostas | | 18-May-2000 22:00 GMT |
Comment 6 | George Kaliviotis | | 18-May-2000 22:00 GMT |
Comment 7 | Nick | | 18-May-2000 22:00 GMT |
Comment 8 | Matt Wakeling | | 18-May-2000 22:00 GMT |
Comment 9 | www.emrl.com | | 18-May-2000 22:00 GMT |
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AmiJoe / Met@Box : Comment 10 of 56 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Eric on 18-May-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 8 (Matt Wakeling): Well, not for "normal application stuff," because that's all written
for 68K Amigas, and the 060 on a CyberstormPPC isn't magically faster
because there happens to be a PPC chip next to it. (I guess the
memory access is 64-bit and therefore supposedly the fastest, but in
terms of user experience it's not noticeably faster than the
Blizzard060 I used to have.) But there's a fair bit of PPC software.
Personally it was worth it to me just for CandyFactoryPPC alone, but
also I've played a lot of Quake, Doom, Hexen etc. If you're
interested in emulation then there's loads of PPC stuff that works
pretty well. Aside from the commercial (mostly graphics-oriented)
software, there's quite a bit on Aminet--mpeg players, mp3 stuff, etc.
But if the AmiJoe is ever done, there's a chance even 68K Amiga
programs would run faster if the G3 can do 68K emulation fast enough.
--Eric |
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