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From: MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu (Norman St. John Polevaulter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: New PC emulator on amiga: Chuck Yeager's AFT
Keywords: bitch, moan, whine, complain
Message-ID: <91156.011802MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 91 05:18:02 GMT
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In article <15080017@hpmwmat.HP.COM>, mikep@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Mike Powell) says:
>
>        The best PC-based flight sims are found on the IBM/compat. machines
>        (much to my dismay).  If they were brought to the amiga (properly...
>        using Amiga's strengths) that would be great.  IBM 'emulation' in
>        that case, would be a good thing.

Sad but true, and not just flight sims. Look at Jetfighter II, or
Test Drive III. Neither due out for Amiga soon, if at all, but these
are some of the best 3-D type programs there are.

Of course, another problem is with the CPU chip. Many, many IBM games
are out that require at least an 80286 for good enough speed and graphics.
Unfortunately, hardly any Amiga games even ACKNOWLEDGE the existence of
a 68020/30. On the one hand this is good -- the programmers have to be
really good and get speedy graphics on a 68000 instead of just being sloppy
and saying "aw, make the user get a faster processor..." But on the other
hand, truly sophisticated and fast 3-D programs are not as common -- the
software makers may be assuming that if it's just too big for a 68000 to
handle, then NO Amiga can handle it. I wouldn't be that pleased if, say,
Falcon 3.0 Amiga required a 68020 or better, but I'd be happier than if
no Falcon 3.0 Amiga existed at all. Which it doesn't.

So... am I totally off base here, or what?

[Your blood pressure just went up.]
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