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- Here are a few comments from me :-)
-
- > So, is BAD MOOD fast?
- > ---------------------
- > Naturally! :-)
- > This is by far the fastest Doom-like engine produced on the Falcon.
- > There are ten or so other engines, some commercial, some FreeWare or
- > ShareWare.
- >
- > Some actual performance figures:
- > (Standard Falcon030, 16 Mhz CPU, 16 bit bus, 32 Mhz DSP)
-
- > (Without the DSP this machine is similar to a non-FastRAM Amiga 1200.)
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Excuse me for bugging here, but this is definitly not true.
-
- The Falcon has a peticular faster BUS to ST-RAM than the Amiga1200 has to it's
- ChipRAM (equivalent of ST-RAM). The Amiga1200 has about half the access speed
- to ChipRAM than the Falcon has to ST-RAM. I think the figures are something
- like 8.2 MB/s ST-RAM (Falcon@16Mhz) and 4.5 MB/s ChipRAM (Amiga1200@14Mhz).
- And an Amiga1200 has a 68020 CPU, which has a smaller cache, hence a bit slower
- in general performance. Of course most 1200's are accelerated in some way
- or another.
-
- Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to advocate anything. I just think that
- information should be consistent.
-
- Maybe we could write something like :
-
- "(Without the DSP this machine is similar to a non-FastRAM A1200 with a
- 16 Mhz 68030 with a _slightly_ faster main-BUS)"
-
- Or maybe we should just drop that line, since most Amiga-owners can figure
- it out themselves :-)
-
- > The Doom ShareWare WAD file, DOOM1.WAD on the opening level (e1m1)
- > at 320x200, full-screen, with all surfaces fully textured starts out
- > at about 5 fps. When walking around, the framrate never drops below
- > 4 fps and often is quite a bit higher.
-
- On my 36 Mhz 68030 FX-Falcon with FX-RAM (pheudo FastRAM) the framerate never
- goes below 7.9 Fps and is mostly at about 10 Fps - ie. about twice as fast.
- This is at 320x200 Full-Screen.
-
- At 160x200 FullScreen it never drops below 9.2 Fps and runs at mostly 13 Fps.
-
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- Keep Cool and Flying...
-
- ChainXOR...
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