| From: | Andrew Korn |
| Date: | 2 May 2000 at 15:15:02 |
| Subject: | Re: At last, at last!!! :) |
Nick Lamburn said:
> what dealers can I trust these days? I'm thinking Eyetech and Weird
Science
> from the UK and Schatz.... whatever (the German dealer whose name is in
English
> 'Treasure Chest' =), Schatztruhe? Anyway... :) Who can I trust?
Those wouldn't be bad choices. In general I'd say go for companies that
advertise - that might sound like I'm just promoting companies that pay the
bills, but it makes sense. After all, if a company isn't advertising, you've
got to ask yourself why...
> 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.
It varies from program to program. CF is a good example - PPC makes some
things a LOT faster than '060 and some things barely faster at all. Even with
the bottom end PPC card you should see a Quake framerate increase of 50-100%.
One thing to keep in mind GFX card wise is that a bvisionppc offers more than
just 3D acceleration. The bus bandwidth of the PPC local bus interface is
about 3 x that of the Ateobus, IIRC. This means that it is able to send
screen data significantly faster, and fill-rates become less of a bottleneck.
Not a problem when it comes to general GUI stuff, but it will slow down the
update speed of games noticeably.
Cheers,
Andrew Korn.
Editor, Amiga Active Magazine
editor@amigactive.com | http://www.amigactive.com
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