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- From: claevius@firefly.prairienet.org (Brent Busby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Phase-5 Vaporware; Maybe Warp Engine Better?
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 05:04:43 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Message-ID: <4jl3pb$lr4@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Summary: Will CyberStorm Mark-II ever come? Will it work right when it does?
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-
- I'm beginning to wonder if the wait for CyberStorm is even worth it.
-
- MacroSystems has been producing a very reliable and efficient accelerator,
- the Warp Engine, for some time now, and it offers most of the same advantages
- that the CyberStorm does. The main difference between the two is that the
- Warp Engine is an '040 board that only *promises* to be upgradable to a full
- '060 board, but actually does exist as a buyable product, while the CyberStorm
- *promises* to be a buyable product, but was actually once a full '060 board
- during the time it was still on the market. I'm in a quandry.
-
- Should I buy a Warp Engine now? Should I wait for a CyberStorm '060 board
- that, when released, may have to go through many board revisions before it's
- a trustable, stable accelerator, assuming Phase-5 even bothers to *try* to
- fully debug the board at all? The CyberVision graphics card, for all its
- 64-bit performance, is still not as fully integrated into the existing Amiga
- OS and applications as Picasso is to this day, and many CyberVision users
- report Enforcer hits for which Phase-5's support people who are supposed to
- be correcting and debugging such problems seem to not care a bit about. With
- this sort of "support", I really wonder if I'd be better off not getting it.
-
- What do you think? Should I wait for the CyberStorm and see what comes of
- it? Does anyone know if anything will be coming of the Warp Engine's '060
- upgradability option? (The Warp Engine '060 question is the main reason I
- wrote this post, so if anyone has any information on that, please reply.)
-
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- Amiga /// | | "They had a glow-in-the-dark
- 040 /// | Brent Busby ("Sequencer") | Santa in their yard. Santa
- \\\/// | claevius@prairienet.org | isn't radioactive, is he?
- \XX/ | | Cool beans. Nuclear Santa."
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