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- From: scm@mfltd.co.uk (Shaun C. Murray)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 14:06:42 GMT
- Organization: Micro Focus, Newbury UK
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- In article <4i6h56$21u@ci.ist.utl.pt>, l42786@alfa.ist.utl.pt says...
- >
- >My sugestions for graphics chips are:
- >- NV1 > It (probably) will be standard PC stuff.
-
- This would be my bet too. Similar architecture to the Sega Saturn apparently
- so cross development of PC / Amiga / Sega games would be possible.
-
- >
- >All make 3D graphics faster and better. Put them in a PCI card as well.
-
- There is already an Nvidia NV1 based PCI card made by Diamond. Pricey though.
-
- >
- >Sound:
- >- Yamaha chip set > like the one they use in their cheap PC DB50 XG card.
- >It has:
- >o 32 voices
- >o 16-bit sound
- >o General Midi and Yamaha XG support
- >o DSP
- >
-
- ok but why bother with that if you use the NV1 - It has 16bit audio and you
- can emulate General Midi by uploading patches anyway. You can also use
- standard system RAM instead of just onboard ram. Sound familiar anybody?
-
- >Interfaces:
- >- Composite/S-Video out : ESSENCIAL!!!
- >- E-IDE/SCSI II-III : E-IDE is fast and cheap :)
- >- Ethernet : for network rendering, etc...
- >- Midi ports : cheap & useful
- >- Stereo sound in/out : useful for DTV people.
-
- Sounds ok to me. I'd rather have SCSI than IDE just because I have loads of
- SCSI gear already. It's also easier to upgrade externally and to move
- equipment between machines such as tape drives and cd-roms.
-
- >* Give it a 1GB E-IDE ST1080A Seagate HD - cheap!
- >* Give it a speedy PPC or HP Risc.
-
- HP Risc - no thankyou. PPC is cheaper and has more chance of expanding thouh
- the Intel/HP thing may change that. PPC for now though.
-
- >The low end computers would have 1 cpu, the others would have several of
- >them.
-
- All should have one to start but making it easy to add more seamlessly would
- be cool. Perhaps this is a dealer option.
-
- >
- >If they really want to develop their own chip set give it to someone like S3
- >to develop, i think they wouldn't dislike to have Hombre...
-
- Why? Go for NVidia!
-
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- Shaun C. Murray | e-mail: scm@mfltd.co.uk
- Micro Focus Ltd, Newbury, UK. | www: http://www.mfltd.co.uk/~scm/
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