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Re: 060 or PPC
« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2006, 11:57:53 PM »
I just looked on ebay, and found 1 blizzard card and it was ~$250! Is there cheaper way to buy this?

Who owns Amiga? Why doesn't anyone make these cards anymore? There lots of Amiga users, it looks like, and if compaines only made so many of something, thats it. Now ownly people who have them can sell them. These parts are slowly breaking, and soon there wont be anything left. Then we're going to be stuck w/ amigaOne. Why doesn't some company start reproducing amigas (maybe with mods builtin?)? That would be cool, get a brand new amiga (dont have to worry about battery, old/dieing parts, etc).
 

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Re: 060 or PPC
« Reply #15 on: February 23, 2006, 12:20:33 AM »
Maybe I paid too much at the time, but I paid $250 USD for a Blizzard '060 card w/128 meg on it 3 years ago.  I concider it money well spent by the way.  As soon as I can afford it, I'm going to buy an '060 card for my A3000 from AmigaKit.  :-D
 

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Re: 060 or PPC
« Reply #16 on: February 23, 2006, 12:22:53 AM »
Classic Amigas are basically antiques, hence the price tag.  If the Blizzard you see is an 060 or a low-end PPC that sounds about right.  In the words of the Metallibashers, Sad But True!
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Re: 060 or PPC
« Reply #17 on: February 24, 2006, 09:02:30 AM »
CPU usage will be something like 40% with 060 when playing MP3. You can do other stuff while listening music, but audio can cut sometimes if you do heavier stuff. You can affect to it by setting program priorities though... I'd still prefer some hw-decoder with 060. They won't use CPU for playing and 16bit is better than 14bit. Some sound cards have hw-decoding possibility and then there's some external hw-players.

Those fast IDE things have same problem than onboard IDE. They choke the CPU when transferring data. With SCSI the transfers are done with dma and there won't be any cpu load.

060 isn't quite enough for video streaming. You can watch low quality mpegs/avis, but on decent quality videos it's quite slideshow :)
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Re: 060 or PPC
« Reply #18 on: February 24, 2006, 11:10:51 AM »
i'd be happy enough with an 060, but i'd like a GFX card as it makes web browsing a much nicer expirience, and the only real way to do this with a desktop case is a PPC card with Bvision... what a shame ;-)

A500 Vampire2/minimegachip/lazarus/indyECS
A600 Vampire2/604n/subway/IndyECS
A1200 PiStorm32+Pi4/subway/IndyAGA
A1200 PiStorm32+Pi4/subway/IndyAGA
A1200 PiStorm32+Pi4/subway/IndyAGA
A3k C=040/CV64-3D/Xsurf100+RRoadUSB/Zoram256/acard scsi-ide-CF/IndyECS,
A4k CSMk3-060/CV64-3D/Xsurf100+RRoadUSB/Bigram256/IndyAGA, mediator+pci cards
CD32 TF360/IndyAGA
Plus an SGI O2 & consoles.
 

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Re: 060 or PPC
« Reply #19 on: February 24, 2006, 12:27:05 PM »
well... i boughta blizzard  030 three monts ago,in a store that used to sell amigas and amiga parts,for 15 euros :roll:

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Re: 060 or PPC
« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2006, 12:50:35 PM »
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ExecSG + Petunia JIT from OS4 beta, emulates OS3.9 faster than a 25MHz 040 runs it natively on a BPPC 200MHz.

I really would recommend waiting for OS4 BPPC rather than buying an 060.

Or don't wait, but use free PowerUP MorphOS.

It has Trance JIT engine which is even faster (moderate 603 runs faster than 060).
 

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Re: 060 or PPC
« Reply #21 on: February 24, 2006, 02:06:18 PM »
I found that on my a4000/060 with mpega, mp3 playing at highest quality only took about 25% CPU.

Using aminetradio or similar on 060 isnt really practical.
 

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Re: 060 or PPC
« Reply #22 on: February 24, 2006, 08:43:56 PM »
Hi,
if you have BPPC card and a compatible graphic card, and that you use mainly CGX & WB system friendly apps, then take the try with MOS, You'll get a huge big boost over a 060/100Mhz, and you'll still be able to listen radio.
But don't expect any gain of speed for the PPC if you use the original Warp "build", use their MOS release instead  :rtfm: .
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Re: 060 or PPC
« Reply #23 on: February 25, 2006, 04:49:46 AM »
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Piru wrote:
Or don't wait, but use free PowerUP MorphOS.


Problems - not free (it only works for 2 hours until you pay), and no AGA support.
 

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Re: 060 or PPC
« Reply #24 on: February 25, 2006, 07:14:38 AM »
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Piru wrote:
Or don't wait, but use free PowerUP MorphOS.


Problems - not free (it only works for 2 hours until you pay), and no AGA support.


That's not true at all - registration is completely free.  There is nothing to pay.  That's why it is called 'MorphOS Free Edition'

If you use it, and like it, then there is a button on the web page to make a Paypal donation to the developers but it's up to you whether you do that.

AGA support?  If you've got a PPC card but you're still using AGA then you've got your priorities mixed up.  AGA is getting on for 15 years old and slows down terribly in anything over 32 colours even in low resolutions.

MorphOS uses features such as alpha blending and transparency, hardware acceleration, gradients, blurring, font antialiasing, fully skinnable interface with 32-bit PNG icons and buttons - how could these be made to work on AGA?  And even if they could work, how fast do you think they would run?

 

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Re: 060 or PPC
« Reply #25 on: February 25, 2006, 11:30:58 PM »
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That's not true at all - registration is completely free.  There is nothing to pay.  That's why it is called 'MorphOS Free Edition'

If you use it, and like it, then there is a button on the web page to make a Paypal donation to the developers but it's up to you whether you do that.


Ah, I was under the impression registering MorphOS wasn't free. Thanks for clearing that up.

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AGA support?  If you've got a PPC card but you're still using AGA then you've got your priorities mixed up.  AGA is getting on for 15 years old and slows down terribly in anything over 32 colours even in low resolutions.


I'd rather not spend $500 trying to get a $50 PC video card working on my A1200. I either have to spend almost $300 for a BVisionPPC (when you can find one at all) and another $150 or so on a tower case, or about $400 for a tower case and a PCI expansion to use a cheap PCI video card. Neither is appealing at all.

The page does say it works with the CV64/3D. I have one in my A4000. The problem there is the A4000 has a developer PPC in it, not the CyberStormPPC. I think I'll go ahead of get the new MorphOS release and check if it works with the developer PPC card.
 

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Re: 060 or PPC
« Reply #26 on: February 26, 2006, 12:16:43 AM »
Usually free does mean free.

But naturally this 'free' only means MorphOS itself is free. We can't give away free hardware, nor can we support all imaginable hardware configurations.
 

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Re: 060 or PPC
« Reply #27 on: February 26, 2006, 01:06:14 AM »
I've said it time and time again - Phase 5 should have made a graphics card for A1200 desktop owners and not bothered with the PowerPC boards with 603e.

A nice '060 + 3D GPU would have been much more prefferable to a PPC + BVision combo (and more physically possible for desktop!).

I think this is now being attempted with the PowerVixxen accelerator/GFX card.

MorphOS does indeed sound a very tempting prospect, especially since it has TurboPrint built in and PPC optimised operation.
 

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Re: 060 or PPC
« Reply #28 on: February 26, 2006, 09:35:05 AM »
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ExecSG + Petunia JIT from OS4 beta, emulates OS3.9 faster than a 25MHz 040 runs it natively on a BPPC 200MHz.

I really would recommend waiting for OS4 BPPC rather than buying an 060.

Or don't wait, but use free PowerUP MorphOS.

It has Trance JIT engine which is even faster (moderate 603 runs faster than 060).


Give me Mediator support please! :-(
 

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Re: 060 or PPC
« Reply #29 from previous page: February 26, 2006, 09:36:18 AM »
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kefallinos wrote:
well... i boughta blizzard  030 three monts ago,in a store that used to sell amigas and amiga parts,for 15 euros :roll:


Nice. I just paid £70 for mine. Although it did have 128mb fast ram and that's alot cheaper than the current retail prices.