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- Terry Morris wrote in comp.sys.amiga.hardware
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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.)
- > >
- > > -- 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."
- > >
- >
- > Brent, for what it's worth My dealer just got the Cyberstorms in for the
- > 4000!!! I already have a Blizzard for the 2000... so it is realesed
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- So, as I heard the Warp 060 isnt out either and heaven knows when it will be.
- Noone I phoned could tell me anything.
- And, in addition, the Warp costs almost two times more (1800 $, 2300 DM), but
- has an ethernet and serial card and scsi on board.
- So I havent decided yet. Don┤t know, lets see....
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- Oliver
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- Oliver Fels
- Fels@zebra.fh-weingarten.de
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