| [News] Gaming on the Amiga, an Interview with Bill McEwen | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 29-Jun-2000 19:20 GMT by Peteo | 23 comments
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Gamers Depot has a good interview
with Bill McEwen talking about the amiga os, hardware and gaming. Check it out, a good read!
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| Comment 1 | XDelusion | | 28-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 2 | Bill McEwen | | 29-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 3 | Pierre Narcisse | | 29-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 4 | szutoman | | 29-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 5 | XDelusion | | 29-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 6 | XDelusion | | 29-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT |
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| Posted by michael jantzen on 29-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 1 (XDelusion):
I guess Bill mentioned that DirectX isn't a component to AmigaDOS,
However about your question about the Amiga - I believe the Commodore SDK did allow for freezing or killing the OS while a game acessed the registers directly. The only reason why you can do this on the Amiga is because,
A) the hardware was well documented.
B) for the most part the hardware was the same.
What direct X does is setup an abstraction layer to acess API's for various video cards directly - instead of doing it the normal way (I believe) through the Windows GDI.exe. |
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