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From: uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardware Idiots ? (NOT a big C64)
Message-ID: <1991May27.203602.2162@crash.cts.com>
Date: 27 May 91 20:36:02 GMT
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>>Erwin van Breeman Writes:
>>The Amiga IS a big C64 with lots of memory and nice custom chips. You only
>>need an assembler to program those wonderfull games. A program like Shadow
>>of the Beast can't be programmed using OS graphic calls.

I am sorry, the Amiga CAN be programmed as a "big C64", but is not, and
was never intended to be such a 'thing'.  From day 1 on the market the
Amiga was designed and engineered more like a SUN workstation than a C64.
To program it as a big C64 only helps owners of 512k 500's play better games.
Certainly Shadow of the Beast can be programmed using OS legal code on
any 020 equipped Amiga with a couple of megs, I imagine some ingenious person
could do so on a 68000 based 1M amiga.

While you can think of the Amiga as a big C64, it was clearly never intended
to be thought of as such, by C= or the original designers.

-Roger

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