| From: | Wesley Potter |
| Date: | 2 May 2000 at 20:42:38 |
| Subject: | Re: At last, at last!!! :) |
On 02-May-00 oruk_amigan@btinternet.com said;
> ...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 have the same spec card as you and Quake runs ok here :)
> Okay, firstly - this may seem ridiculous, but it's the dire truth:
> what software dealers in the UK can I still trust. I have heard so
> much bad stuff about Alive and Epic (though Epic were v. good in the
> past), and I have suffered from CS&E, 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?
I usually get all my stuff from Eyetech and Weird Science as I have
had some bad experiences in the past
> 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.
Quake is brilliant on the PPC (Slow as hell on the 040), Frogger PPC
is getting better all the time at playing MPEGs (VCD's are still crap
though), AmigaAMP looks and play MP3's brilliant as does mpega.library
for everything else like Songplayer. I don't know about the latest
games because I haven't tried them yet.
> Thirdly, what programs should I buy that really show off my PPC.
FroggerPPC, AK Datatypes, the V3 Shockwave Flash plugin, Quake...
> Fouthly, assuming I have plugged in my two SIMMs (two x 60ns, 32Mb
> and 64Mb giving, 96Mb, gaaaaghhhhhh! bloomin' eckers! :), will it
> literally be a matter of plugging it in, firing it up (probably
> literally in my case ;), installing WarpOS v4 and then that's it?
you can plugin and start using PowerUp :)
> Do I need to install from the floppy disk provided before I install
> the card or after? Do I need to install anything at all?
You'll need the 040 libs from DCE's website http://www.dcecom.de and
thats it if you wish to use PowerUp (I think)
> Anyway, thanks for your time, I really appreciate it...
You're Welcome
l8r
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