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[News] The future of the Amiga games industryANN.lu
Posted on 11-Nov-2000 15:02 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä3 comments
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Amihoo.com have a poll to determine whether there is a future for Amiga game development.

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Posted by Troels Ersking on 10-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT
nice initiative...but a bit weird questions which can't be of that much help for the game companies, exept say which type of games there's most demand for.
Anyway I think the Amiga games "industry" will stand or fall with the AmigaDE. The Amiga market as it is right now is to split in diffrent directions (MorphOS/PPC/non-PPC etc.)to qualify for larger game developements as there are no real userbase left.
As I see it developers would have the largest userbase for their apps. if they developed ecs/aga 680xx programs only, the problems is that even the owners of these machines wouldn't buy such low spec. software, so the alternative is to go PPC/GFX card only.
Problem is just that the installed PPC userbase is so small that it's a huge risk everytime someone(Hyperion for example) developes a game only for that audience.
When I said AmigaDE will be the future for Amiga games it is simply because I expect it to get a MUCH larger userbase (with better cpu spec.) right away, simply because of the wide selection of machines it will be able to run on.
Therefore i hope to see ALL Amiga game developers to support AmigaDE/SDK as soon as they implement the sound and 3D stuff in the SDK.
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