@nostupidquestions What's the significance of/context behind this quote?
"Flight Simulator II is a flight simulator released by subLOGIC in 1986 for the Amiga 1000. This game came out before the Amiga 500 was released in 1987. Let that sink in. Because barely anyone understood Amiga hardware in 1986." - https://lilura1.blogspot.com/2022/02/Flight-Simulator-2-Amiga-1986-subLOGIC-Chris-Green.html
I assume it's a huge feat of engineering right there but why and what's the significance?
Submitted 2 days ago by Reshirams_Rad_Slam@mastodo.neoliber.al to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The architecture uses two distinct bus subsystems: the chipset bus and the CPU bus. The chipset bus allows the coprocessors and CPU to address “Chip RAM”. The CPU bus provides addressing to conventional RAM. So it’s way different than any other machine at the time. So doing this before you got your hands on the machine to debug and test on is very impressive.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 days ago
Architecture of the 500 or 1000?
Did they do traditional or “Microsoft Xbox” versioning? (Was 1000 before or after 500?)
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Short answer: 1000 came before 500.
Correct answer: An Amiga (don’t recall the name) was released at some point, and Amiga decided to make a cheaper alternative. This cheaper alternative was the 500, and the older model was retroactively renamed 1000.