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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 96 23:53:36 GMT+1
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
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- Subject: Re: ShapeShifter
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4gfh@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 21 Feb 96 Joseph Waldvogel wrote to All:
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- (quoted)
- >> I got a Amiga 1200 with a 1230 IV / 50 MHz. Is this sufficiently to run
- >> ShapesShifter and e.g. Netscape with acceptable speed? I only got 4 M MB
- >> fast but I will maybe get 8MB. I guess 4 MB fast RAM is not enough to
- >> run NetScape with SS, or is it?
-
- Yes, it is. I've done it and it works. 25 Mhz 030/4 Mb RAM, back then.
-
- JW> 4 Megs of Fast is NOT enough Ram, I belive Netscape is around a 4 Meg
-
- Nope. Well, maybe the latest version is...
-
- JW> I have 10 Megs for my A1200, and it's just enough to run Netscape with.
-
- Wrong. Netscape 1.1N ran quite nicely with SS on 2,5 Mb of free RAM.
- And a graphics card if y'want colour (and inline graphics. Which I
- always turn off, since it takes way too much time, no matter how much
- RAM).
-
- JW> very hard to read the text. It's TOOOO Slow for Newsgroup and E-mail in
- JW> 16 color mode also, at least I think so, Maybe 1 or 2 Mails is ok, but
- JW> it's just to Slow otherwize. Again I'm sure it's quite usable in B&W
- JW> mode.
-
- Yes.
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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