| [News] Amiga adds new content to website | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 03-Jun-2000 16:28 GMT by Christian Kemp | 40 comments
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Amiga's homepage now features an Executive Update dated 03-Jun-2000. amigatainment, as the name suggests, seems to be a new section oriented towards entertainment software. A press release on the Amiga Software Developers Kit (SDK) is now also available. Then, there's a (large, but badly formatted) list of companies selling the kit. On a related note, it seems like Ted Wallingford is once again responsible for the site maintenance.
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| Posted by Steffen Haeuser on 05-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 27 (Kelly Samel):
Hi!
1. Virtual Memory cannot be implemented without Memory Protection, it cannot
be implemented seperately. You need to "catch" the access to a not
existing memory address using the MP to "forward" it to the Virtual
Memory. Actually all modern CPUs have nice hardware support for
implementing Memory protection: This is called the MMU.
2. Virtual Memory is at least ESSENTIAL for one sort of Applications: Games.
That means: New games. Titles on "current" 3D Engines on PC or Mac like
the Quake 3 Engine or the Unreal Tournament engine require between
100-300 MB of memory to run. Without Virtual Memory an IMPOSSIBILITY.
And there are other applications asides from games which also are very
demanding concerning memory.
BTW: It is very likely that new game engines (still in developement) will take
even more memory. The reason is simple: With 3D Chips getting faster and faster
games are done with higher resolutions, more detailed textures, models with
higher polygon count. Naturally this needs more memory.
Steffen Haeuser |
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