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- Mattbench Grabs Rev.2 15-04-99
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- Hardware Configuration:
- A1200 (Rev. 2B - not fixed) housed in Power Tower
- Kickstart 3.1
- Blizzard PPC-160 / 040-25 inc FPU
- BvisionPPC
- 32mb EDO Simm 60ns (Fastmem)
- Pioneer 36x Atapi CD-ROM connected via
- IDE 4-way Buffered interface
- Hitachi 2.5 IDE 1.3g HardDrive
- Labtec 80w Stereo Speakers inc 2nd input for cd audio
- Commodore CD32 Joypad
- Tandy Dotmatrix 120dpi B&W Printer
- External 880k floppy drive
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- Software Configuration:
- Workbench 3.1
- CyberGraphX v4 + Update 1
- IDE-FIX 97 v3.4
- MCP 1.32 Beta 12
- Newicons v4.5
- Benchtrash 1.44
- MagicMenu 2.25
- StartMenu 2
- Birdie
- Kcon
- VirusZ v1.44 XVS 33.18
- SummerTimeGuard
- SwazInfo
- Stack attack
- ARQ
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- There are lots of other patches on the system but the above software is what
- is most well known.
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- CMQ060 v1.2 (MCP CopyMemQuicker version is slower)
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- Fastiprefs - What it says. Just install it, you won't regret it.
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- Swazinfo - Great disk info replacement. I do not understand what problems
- some people had with this and newicons as thay work together fine for me.
- When I first installed it however I found it would crash alot but after
- installing stack attack, Mattbench became alot more stable.
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- PowerWB - Add some usfull gadgets to the wb windows.
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- Startmenu 2 - The only true win95 taskbar.
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- All these can be obtained from Aminet
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- As for the screenblanker I use Gblanker of rarther the modules via mcp. Works
- in conjunction with mcp's powersave function.
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- About Mattbench:
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- Mattbench is being displayed in 800-600 by CyberGFX in 16 bit.
- Mattbench is stable with only the first boot occassionly causing a crash.
- Mattbench was grabbed using cybergrab 1.2
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- I have included 2 of the backgrounds I use and my alert sound.
- The buffy picture was downloaded from one of the hundreds of buffy pic
- sites. (www.buffy.com)
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- The bootpic requires AmigaStart and I assembled it myself so I don't think
- anyone else has it.
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- If anyone is interested I have included an Aibb module from
- my system to compare with your own. (BlizzPPC 603e 160/040-25, 32mg fast)
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- Also I have included my startup-sequence just so you can see how it all
- comes together.
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- AmigaAMP benfits greatly from a ppc card. Mine is set up to play back using
- a replay frequency of 44100 and through AHI using HIFI Paula14 bit calibrated.
- Sound quality is truly exelent and there is plenty of cpu time left for various
- plugins which dance to the music. This works for all MPG sound formats.
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- You will see from my startup that I use the command rom2fast. You proberbly
- think what is the point when the blizzard has built in maprom. Well the
- explanation is that I lose 512k regardless of whether I use maprom or not.
- If I enable it then I lose 1mb and acording to aibb, rom still is not in
- fastmem and I noticed WHD installs no longer worked. When using rom2fast
- I only lose 512k and aibb says rom is maped in fastmem.
- I am using the latest release of the blizzard flash update (30/3/99)
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- The biggest problem with my setup is that the 040 FPU overheats very quickly so
- this limits the use of warp3d and such including graphic rendering. With the
- tower cover off I can usually get about 40min before signs of fpu over heating
- occur. I will probobly need somekind of fan but I do not know what to get.
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- Bvision probs.
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- My computer is stable with this addon apart from when first powered on. I
- suppose that this could be from the lack of power as I have not attached the
- floppy connector. This is because I would rarther have the led connector
- from the power tower connected. Although it is a tight fit I found that
- once the led connector was insulated with electric tape, then it just manages to
- to fit on the floppy connector. I do not think I am suffering from lack of
- power as once past the initial boot everything is fine.
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- Playing AdoomPPC on my settup realy makes it fly. I can get upto 38 fps instead
- of the 25 I got on AGA.
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- Forget ZHAdoomPPC as this is slow anyway.
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- I would like to see a DoomAttackPPC as this was easily the fastest 68k
- version and I liked the extras like small transparent map and crosshair.
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- WarpUP probs
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- If it is of any help to you, WarpUP became very much more stable on my system
- when I removed Play16 from my startup sequence which was used for playing a
- boot sample.
- Only RTGmaster is the problem now as when it openes powerpc.library the
- system mostly hangs. This makes it hard to play napalm. Launching a smaller
- rtgmaster applications like the atari2600 emulator first often helps.
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- WarpUP vs PowerUP
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- I have always prefered PowerUP as for me, powerUP stuff often seems faster
- than warpUP stuff. Also Everyone who has a PPC board at present has ppc.lib
- and it works flawlessly.
-
- After reading that Phase5 are to use WarpUP in there new PPC G3/G4 boards it
- seems like the end of ppc.lib. That would mean that everyone would need warpUP
- installed from mow on as there would be no point in continuing ppc.lib apps.
- I know that someone is developing a ppc.lib emu for WarpUP to allow PowerUP stuff
- to run, but I think Phase5 should develop an official version as thay made
- ppc.lib in the first place and and are more likely to be able to make a 100%
- compatible version.
-
- OK, thats enough about mattbench and my opinions, now go and compare it to
- otherworkbenches and please E-Mail me If you have any comments (Although it
- mighttake a while to reply).
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- E-Mail: Amimatt@Hotmail.com
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