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| Comment 1 | B. van der Meer | | 08-Sep-2000 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 2 | szutoman | | 09-Sep-2000 22:00 GMT |
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| Bill McEwen interview : Comment 3 of 28 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by James Carroll on 09-Sep-2000 22:00 GMT | [interview snippet]
ME: No, I don't see that, because you'll be able to run your Amiga Classic on the new system!
CF: Aha, I see, but surely the speed will not be as fast as an original chipset...
ME: Actually it will be FASTER with what we're doing - we're not doing it through emulation.
CF: OK, cause now it's with the Virtual Processor I suppose?
ME: U-huh
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I'm curious. How is classic amiga software going to run on the new AmigaOE, given that its not run by emulation? I take it this is going to remain one of their little secrets until the AmigaOE is released, as they havent *really* been that forthcoming with details when they've mentioned it before.
Also, they say it will be faster.. faster than what? An 060 50mhz? What sort of speeds are we talking about here? And another thing (and most importantly), will the AmigaOE be able to run graphics demos and games, or just OS 3.1 compilant software?
One last thing, will they release the AmigaOE for PPC Amigas? If they do so, and the AmigaOE is able to run all/most classic software, then I dont really see a need for a PPC AmigaOS 3.5 (or updated).
I'm really surprised no ones asked these questions yet. I'd LOVE to know the answers to them.
Any Amiga news sites wanna interview Bill again and put these questions to him?
I dont really want to email him, I'm sure he gets hundreds of emails a day asking all sorts of questions or making suggestions.. |
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