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[News] Fleecy Moss interviewANN.lu
Posted on 11-Oct-2000 19:54 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä14 comments
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Vidar Langberget has posted an interesting interview with Amiga's Fleecy Moss on his homepage here. [ Note that the page requires a browser that supports CSS - ie. none of the Amiga ones will display it properly. There should be a non-CSS version here, but it wasn't found when I tried to access it. - TY ]

Fleecy Moss interview : Comment 1 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by Al_B on 10-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
try http://pub11.ezboard.com/fapecomputerjungle for a non-CSS read of the interview.
Fleecy Moss interview : Comment 2 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by ian on 10-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
Only support from Matrox on launch? That's too bad. They make good hardware, but are by no means the perf monsters of the industry. When the A1K shipped it totally destroyed the competition in the GFX department. Going with Matrox means this will not be the case this time around. Unless Matrox has a secret weapon they're not talking about. Their current top-o-the-line gfx chip, the G450, is a mediochre 3D chip with really nice 2D and flat panel support. Their "dual head" implementation is neat. The quality of their 3D rendering is stellar but the fillrate is sub-par. Of the "big 4" They are last with NVidia, ATI and 3DFx leading the way.
Fleecy Moss interview : Comment 3 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by David Shipman on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (ian):
Matrox seem to be a pretty alternative-friendly company... they release their driver source pretty openly for the Linux community (and whoever else) to use.
I suspect this has more to do with the decision than any actual product-based criteria.
Its a shame, because Matrox are so obviously behind, I don't see how Amiga plan to be 'revolutionary' by releasing a product that only supports one graphics card vendor, who is clearly far from being the leader in their field...
More to the point, with NVidia (and others) being so 'careful' about their driver source, how are we ever going to get support for the GeForce (or indeed any other Matrox-superior product)? Amiga have said they aren't going to do drivers, and noone else has the corporate (or financial) weight to get the driver code...
Fleecy Moss interview : Comment 4 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by XDelusion on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
Well this Maxtor thing may not be half bad. For one thing it ain't like the card sux and it totally useless and crappy looking. My room mate is running Quake 3 on a VooDoo 2 still, and the GFX still impress me, as well as many visitors, and I know Maxtor has had to have surpassed those GFX by now. As for there dual screen options, and great 2D support. Well this is perfect for the Business world, and I am sure much cheaper for everyone. Maxtor is FAR from useless or obsolete, and another thing, you will not have to worry about the games not being compatable like you do in windows. Everything should be written for the Matrox as a standard, but then again isn't Amiga OS supposed to have the ability to install and run on anything? Well then where did they get support for the GFX chip in the Dreamcast!??! :)
As for NVIDIA, well if Amiga proves itself, I am sure many hardware companies will be more than happy to produce for out new OS. As far as I can see, if Amiga does what it says it can do, then the world will become dependent on it, or else someone will come along and steel the idea and the spotlight....
...again.
Fleecy Moss interview : Comment 5 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by Teemu I. Yliselä on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
The non-css article mentioned in the news item is now also working.
Fleecy Moss interview : Comment 6 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (XDelusion):
Oh boy, there we go again.
Maxtor makes harddrives, Matrox makes graphics-cards.
And no, Matrox isn't "so far behind".
Fleecy Moss interview : Comment 7 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by XDelusion on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Anonymous):
Woops, I must have been smoking the cheap crack again. Typo! :)
Fleecy Moss interview : Comment 8 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by sutro on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
Hmmm... isn`t Matrox AGP only ?
Does this mean AmigaOne is just a lame PC with SDK and some other goodies ?
I don`t know about you but I hate PC technology. I expected a little better effort than that from AmigaInc.
Anyway, Matrox is one of the best all around cards out there. Don`t listen to lame benchmarks and PC Games magazines. It is more than adequate for the odd 3D game and the quality is far better than most. It is just impressive how so many people judge products by their performance in Virtual Fighter ignoring more important aspects.
sutro
Fleecy Moss interview : Comment 9 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by Brian Donahue on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
Cascading Style Sheets are a bad idea anyway. They work/don't work differently on every browser. Even in a PC-only world, webmasters who use CSS are probably writing for one web browser and should be taken outside and shot.
Fleecy Moss interview : Comment 10 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by Vidar Langberget on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
The CSS I'm using on the Temple Of Technology website is very basic. Opera, Netscape and IE all show it relatively good. If noone dared to use new features, browser developers wouldn't be so pressed to support new features.
Vidar
Fleecy Moss interview : Comment 11 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by victor # on 13-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (sutro):
AIK, even some Mac's has AGP bus. Is it means these got turned into PCs..?
Fleecy Moss interview : Comment 12 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by David Shipman on 13-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (sutro):
The troublesome thing is, Amiga seem very much to be targetting the games market... on the 'what is amiga about' page they mention 'this (vp) technology has the possibility to revolutionise games development...' with no real mention of apps.
Check out the list of commited titles and compare the number of games to apps...
Now, Matrox makes good cards, I've never doubted this, but all the features that separate them from the competition are only relevant in a productivity situation... 3d performance wise, especially in a gaming situation (and i say this from experience, not just 'lame benchmarks') the GeForce is obviously superior. Its a fact. I'd love to have 2 monitor output and fast high resolution 2d, but what's the point with no apps to utilise the features?
Fleecy Moss interview : Comment 13 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by french man on 13-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
Bad news guys...
AmigaOneonly one procesor
Fleecy Moss interview : Comment 14 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by victor # on 14-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (David Shipman):
>The troublesome thing is, Amiga seem very much to be targetting the games market...
Yeah. And maybe they going to make the same mistake Commodore did once?... As M$ is targetting the (web-)business world with their .NET "platform"...
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