Quake on the older Amigas

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On older systems you mentiond (A500, 600, 2000) it is rather painful any way you cut it. The bare minimum I'd recomend is a 060 and Voodoo 3(Via Prometheus). Also newer Quake ports like GLQuake are MUCH better than Clickbooms.

HERE is an old benchmark comparison I did a few years back.

Test system:
A3000 MK-II 060/66 64meg ram
Prometheus w/Voodoo3 3000(SGRAM)

All tests done in full screen(no size reduction), the GLQuake68K version is using the fastrender option.

screenmode | Clickboom fps | GLQuake fps
320x240------------10.8-------------23.0
400x300-------------7.8--------------21.1
512x384-------------------------------21.1
640x480-------------------------------19.9
800x600-------------------------------16.0
1024x768-----------------------------11.9
 

 :-o


-edit-
Removed Quake II results, irrelevant. Oops;-)

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kd7ota wrote:
I dont know where I heard this from.....

But I was told that if you do a PCI upgrade, and a voodoo card, then I think it was Doom that would be fully playable?? But not sure if Doom is an intensive as Quake.

Actually Doom was fairly(barely) playable on my old A500 with GVP A530(030/50). Any Amiga with 040 should be sufficient, even only ECS.

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Lemmink wrote:
Well and how much do you expect from ZIII in real live Theoretical it should be something like 25 MB/s but you won`t get near it even with an 11 Buster that could need some fixes.

It depends on the ZIII card being used and the accelerator. I am getting about ~14MB/sec on my setup writting to the VRAM on the Voodoo 3(in the Prometheus).