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| Comment 1 | Henrik Mikael Kristensen | | 23-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 2 | Anonymous | | 23-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT |
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| Posted by John Waters on 23-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT | Let me start this comment off by stating that I am not flaming Amiga, Inc. I want them to succeed as much as anyone. I still own highly modified Amiga’s (A500 & A2000HD), but don't use them much any more. :( I just have a few questions.
What is Amiga actually adding to Elate? To me it looks like the Amiga SDK is just Elate packaged. People keep saying how Amiga is going to make cross platform programming a reality, but in fact The Tao Group is who is doing it. Is Amiga basically the RedHat of Elate? Are they just putting together a nice packaged version of Elate (like RedHat does with Linux)? I'm not saying this is a bad thing.
I also keep hearing how Amiga is going to bring games and such to Linux. Has anyone else not noticed that Linux users are big on Free Software? Do you really think they are going to pay to buy the Amiga package to run some games? Maybe I'm wrong here, but I doubt the Linux community will embrace Amiga. They'll want a native port.
Finally, has anyone really done a proof of concept with regard to highly graphical games? I don't see how an abstraction layer is going to be able to perform against native coding and still be portable (how portable is their version of Quake?). It's been tried many times before and has always failed because you can't get the same performance. Maybe this is becoming a moot point because of faster hardware. Or maybe Amiga’s focus won't be on gaming and will be more on appliances.
Anyway, those are my questions. I'm intrigued by what Amiga is doing with Elate, but I'm a little jaded.
John |
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