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- Path: news.uni-bielefeld.de!bsieker
- From: bsieker@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Bernd Sieker)
- Subject: Re: Phase-5 Vaporware; Maybe Warp Engine Better?
- Sender: news@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (News Administrator)
- Message-ID: <BSIEKER.96Apr1212421@sieglinde.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
- In-Reply-To: claevius@firefly.prairienet.org's message of 31 Mar 1996 05:04:43 GMT
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 19:24:21 GMT
- References: <4jl3pb$lr4@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: Technical Faculty, University of Bielefeld
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- In article <4jl3pb$lr4@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> claevius@firefly.prairienet.org (Brent Busby) writes:
-
- >
- > 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
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Unfortunately, it does not. The WarpEngine has been unavailable for
- several months now, the German distributor (Hirsch & Wolf) stated some
- weeks ago, that they could not get definite information on
- availability and dates about the proposed "TransWarpEngine" 060. Until
- it (and a cheaper, _new_ 040 version) will be available there is no
- WarpEngine at all.
-
- >
- > Should I buy a Warp Engine now? Should I wait for a CyberStorm '060 board
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Buy one if you can. If you can, tell us where and at what price.
-
- [...]
- > 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.
-
- Phase 5 is not directly responsible for the software, but you should
- admit that CyberGraphX is the largest step towards compatible (with
- older graphics) RTG that has been done so far, and it runs very well
- on the majority of available graphics boards. The CyberGraphX library
- and board driver updates are free and come out quite frequently.
-
- Please show me where Picasso Software is "more integrated into
- existing Amiga OS and applications" than CyberGraphX!
-
- >
- > 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.)
-
- I have decided to wait for a Cyberstorm, since I was fed up with
- waiting for a WarpEngine (for 3 months without a word). Phase5 at
- least gives some statements from time to showing they are alive and
- (hopefully) working on the board.
-
- >
- > --
- > 040 /// | Brent Busby ("Sequencer") | Santa in their yard. Santa
-
-
- Bernd
-
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