| From: | oruk_amigan |
| Date: | 5 May 2000 at 10:33:21 |
| Subject: | RE: WooooHoooo! But... ;) |
Hi Mike,
>>Well, not to beat about the bush and all that; I have got the
>>PPC card to
>>work!!! Yes, I know, it's a miracle!! ;))
>>
>>Basically the other flash update didn't work; but by starting the
>>BlizzPPC040Update program from hard disk and not floppy disk,
>>it worked!! I
>
>Wow, weird. But good job too! Now you've still got your Apollo SCSI +
>CD-ROM to sort out :) hahaha.
Yeah yeah yeah, and what will be wrong then, oh yes, the IDE interface will
go wrong, or if I get a Squirrel for the desktop I'll either bend the PCMCIA
pins or there will be some missing.. ummm, another duff CD-ROM drive... And
please, don't laugh!!! :)))))
(You can see I'm a very lucky guy! ;)
>>downloaded it from Aminet; ran the installer. Then I
>>installed the Blizfix
>>program with:
>>
>>BPPCFix install 040 reboot
>
>When I used the '040' option it seemed to make my system weird (I have an
>060) so I no longer do so. Can't remember what it did now anyway :-/
I'd guess that's because you have an 060, but I shall try w/o that option. :)
>>Now the ppc.library is flushed from the system resident list;
>>or whatever.
>>So in theory; the powerpc.library of WarpUp's should work.
>>Unfortunately;
>>running say AmigaAMP (the Mp3 player) with WarpOS as the
>>decoder doofery
>>thing, says it can't open "powerpc.library" - what's wrong??
>
>Have you watched what its doing with SnoopDOS?
>Also have you sorted out the WarpOS ENV terminator variable as in the
>BPPCFix docs?
Nope. I shall check those things tonight...
>>Also; are there any decent AVI/QT players which run well on a
>>PPC like mine?
>
>AMP (By AmiDOG) was good I think, and Frogger is okay ... on my 240mhz PPC
>anyway. I doubt it will be that stunning on a 160Mhz thought :-/
Well I shall try AMP by AmiDog; if that's not very good, I'll get MooVid which
is *very* good. :)
>>(PPC 160MHz (though it is reported as 175MHz?) and full XC68040 25MHz)
>
>Which program reports this and what version of the Flash have you got
>installed? There used to be a bug in the bus speed calculation IIRC.
I don' think it's an error since the PPC's osscillator is 50MHz, and the multiplier
of 3.5, which is 175MHz. I think it may be the V45 summink version; whatever
it is, it's the older flash update on DCE's site. (I'm not to easy about reflashing
it with the latest in case I bugger it up again! :))
>>Also, it's quite drastic the performance between a 40MHz 68040
>>and 25MHz
>>68040 - quite a lot!!! And there's a lot of difference
>>between the ppc and
>>040/40 as well!!! :))
>
>hahahahah, should have gone for an '060, as most stuff is still 68k you
>would have benefitted more :) hehe.
I'm not made of money y'know! :)) Anyway, I can quite easily live with it!
After all, I made do with a 14MHz 'EC020 for the past month or so.... :)
All the best,
Nick Lamburn.
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