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[Rant] Where is MorphOS for CSPPC?ANN.lu
Posted on 26-Jul-2004 11:33 GMT by Kolbjørn Barmen (Edited on 2004-07-26 13:40:05 GMT by Christian Kemp)78 comments
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Whatever happened to the promised support for PowerUp? While people are discussing the meaning of "promise" and "support" I want to ask what the final outcome of MorphOS for PowerUP machines is. web archive (20030602171643) of www.morphos.net/support.php3. Was it ever promised? Not? Versions? Support? When? The mention of CSPPC and BlizzPPC was there for more than 3 years before it vanished when morphos.de/morphos.net became ..uhm.. genesized. :)
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Where is MorphOS for CSPPC? : Comment 76 of 78ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 29-Jul-2004 16:05 GMT
In reply to Comment 74 (Sammy Nordström):
"So, you think 3D rendering hasn't been possible since Pentium4@2GHz or more?"

Of course it has. You could do it on an A2000. It took forever.


"First of all, the 3D rendering applications we have on the Amiga today was created back in the days when noone had heard of the term Giga in relation to computers yet. So, even if more speed is an advantage, a G4 for that software should be more than enough for making it possible, don't you think?"

I don't see any logic there. If an object to be rendered has so many polygons, such and such textures, is lit by so many lights, and so on, then there are a certain number of calculations to be made. If you want to render complicated scenes, as is expected nowadays, the number of calculations is enormous and even the fastest current computers are too slow. They had to rush out and buy a load more computers to get "Return of the King" finished in time.

No, a G4 is not enough for serious work.


"Second of all, "serious work" encomasses quite a lot more than just 3D rendering. Everyone does some form of "serious work" on their computer but most doesn't even know what 3D rendering means."

Sure. There is weather forecasting, for instance - but we don't have any Amiga software for that.


"Thirdly, in every aspect on "serious work", I'd say it's the software available for the Amiga that is limiting us, not the speed of the G4 nor the G3."

No, the renderers are fine. It would be nice to have radiosity and other features found in the latest Lightwave, but these add even more calculations and are very demanding on the processor.
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