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- Hi all,
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- Just a thought or two on the Amiga newsgroup idea ...
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- Basically I don't want Amiga people on the normal mailing
- list straight away.
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- Maybe Johan could set up a BM-AMIGA mailing list and he
- could repost any interesting articles or replies to the normal
- mailing list, and if after a 3 month probation period & the Amiga
- people seem commited and genuine we could re-unite all
- the coders and people in one Bad Mood mailing list ??
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- Also I will re-write another part of the draft as I'm sure Amiga
- people would be quite interested in how the project has
- developed and from what information and sources.
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- Also a bit more info on what the DSP actually does within the code
- so they can assess the ease of porting.
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- If I'm right in thinking it won't be possible for the Amiga people to
- see the DSP code as it is Dougs & hidden in the depths of his
- hard disk ... (Just in case there is some one familiar with Amiga and
- DSP hardware who could easily convert 56001 to '030/040.)
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- So somehow they would need info on what parts of the code the
- DSP handled and how the data travels etc. ??
-
- Also another point would be the Amiga code could be written
- in different flavours :
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- A1200 - '020 models then '030,'040 and '060 machines ...
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- (Is the '020 code fully compatible right through
- to running on a '060 chip. Would optimising make a significant
- difference?)
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- If not there maybe differences for optimsed routines for each type
- of CPU ...
- Afterall we're only interested in keeping it an '030,'040 and 060
- project, right ?
- Therefore it would be best to tell them it won't be possible to
- run on a plain A1200 without an '030 card ...
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- Oh well just a few more thoughts, which I'll put into my second draft
- which I'll do later this weekend.
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- If you have any requests or ideas for additions to the draft then
- mail me directly if its not worth reposting ...
-
- (MOAN-OF-THE-WEEK: You know, sometimes I can see why people get so annoyed
- with
- committees having to making suggestions and ammendments and
- being too democratic about issues... for this someone should just post
- our plans to the various newsgroups and deal with it through
- their own e-mail address to see what the response is ...
- BTW I don't have access to newsgroups ...)
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- BTW Henrik/ChainXOR could you send to me again the info
- on differences between Amiga and Falcon gfx modes that
- you posted a while ago (Chunky and planar stuff ...)
- (I changed computers but not hard disk so I lost a lot
- of BM posts ...)
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- Bye for now,
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- -Simon
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