Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!oliveb!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga vs Sega Message-ID: <100575@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 22 Apr 89 20:28:48 GMT References: <2075@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1690@wpi.wpi.edu> <11454@s.ms.uky.edu> <39867@vax1.tcd.ie> <42c01941.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 29 In article <42c01941.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> (billkatt) writes: >Nonsense. OutRun pushes one or two 16Mhz 68000s and special blitter chips >to their max, not to mention doesn't have to run a multitasking operating >system. No machine running one 8Mhz 68000, with a simple blitter and a >multitasking operating system is going to be able to match the arcade version, >not even the Amiga. >-Steve Bollinger This presupposes that the Amiga has a "simple" blitter, which in fact is not the case, nor does it acknowledge the contribution of the Copper to the equation which makes some operations that would be difficult on a blitter fairly easy. For one, you needn't "blit" the car onto the scenery you can just display it there by having the copper switch the point at which memory is displayed, on the line where the car appears. Or you can use all the 8 sprites as a 64 X n X 16 color bitmap to represent the car, while still using them in other places above and below the car. I think the only statement one could reasonably be accurate in making would be "Given the same programmer, the Amiga could not do what a dual 16Mhz 68000 with blitters graphic system can do." However, the key is _same programmer_ which is so rarely the case. The statement made earlier about no one having pushed the Amiga to it's limits is correct. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you. "A most excellent barbarian ... Genghis Kahn!"