Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 153 from 2009/12/10
From: Minnesota, USA
Andreas_Wolf,
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Programs that will really use these new features of the NatAmi won't run on old m68k Amigas so they couldn't possibly create "a new wave of applications and games for 68k machines and the Natami" (see your 1st post) but just for the NatAmi.
That's not quite accurate. For backward compatibility, opcode fusion allows one operation using the encoding of two operations that it replaced. For example, a 3 operand add is encoded as move.l d1, d0; add.l d3, d0. Similarly, a predicated add would be encoded as beq.s label1; add.l d1, d0; label1: .
Also, the chunky bitmap display modes are expected to have Cybergraphics compatible drivers under AROS. There will probably be either Mesa or OpenGL-ES drivers as well for the 3D core.
[ Edited by Samurai_Crow 20.06.2011 - 20:29 ]
