| From: | Robbin Van Ooy |
| Date: | 2 May 2000 at 12:12:06 |
| Subject: | Re: At last, at last!!! :) |
At 02-May-00, oruk_amigan@btinternet.com said something about
[amigactive] At last, at last!!! :), resulting in this reply.
>...and now I have a BlizzardPPC card, YIPPPPEEEEE! :) </brag> ;) Seriously,
>I am gonna love every moment of it (abiding it works!!! ;), I have got almost
>the so-called bottom of the range, a 160MHz 603e with a 25MHz XC68040 at
>25MHz!
> Slow, 160MHz is slow.... If Quake can do 20fps on this baby I'm gonna be
>dead
>chuffed! =)
I used to get 24fps on the same board, but that wasnt the openGL version,
which is slower.
>Secondly, even though I have a 'low end' 160MHz PPC card, will performance in
>things like Quake, Heretic II, Candy Factory, MPEG movie players, MPi/ii/3
>players,
>Elastic/Fantastic Dreams still be absolutely, ummm, fantastic? I understand
>that Heretic II may not be so clever though, I do already have a gfx. card in
>my 1200T - an Ateo Bus with Pixel 64 driven by Picasso 96 2.0.
GLQuake and hereticII both require a 3D gfxboard like the Bvision. As does
wipeout.
Yes mpg will play fine :)
>Thirdly, what programs should I buy that really show off my PPC.
bvision.exe
>Fouthly, assuming I have plugged in my two SIMMs (two x 60ns, 32Mb and 64Mb
>giving, 96Mb, gaaaaghhhhhh!
Uh.. theres only 2 simmslots on it :^)
>of plugging it in, firing it up (probably literally in my case ;), installing
>WarpOS v4 and then that's it?
No :D
>Do I need to install from the floppy disk provided before I install the card
>or after?
After.
I wish the URL below still worked, you're in for a lot of work :^)
For now, 2 things:
WarpOS4 + update
Latest Flashupdate from ftp.dcecom.de
After that, you're best of joining the mailinglist mentioned below aswell :)
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