What's the coolest thing I can do with a BPPC card?

[Tension]

Turn it into a bong! Only joking kids cos remember, drugs are bad.

[A4000_Mad]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEmjuOSBrIY

:cool:



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[JC]

I remember that one version of ImageFX took advantage of the ppc.

[mousehouse]

That thought accompanies every piece of valuable Amiga hardware I've had, and generally wins.

Right, but the value of the CS PPC is insane compared to the prices you pay for any other Amiga related item.

For a 'normal' going price of a CSPPC you can get an A4000D in nice condition, decent 68040 accelerator, RTG card, Indivision AGA and maybe a Deneb... that does not justify the CS PPC for me in any way (except for OS4 - for which I don't care).

[Franko]

having a BPPC card and no BVision??? what the heck is that about?? get that BVision and run RTG stuff now, it is the coolest you can do on a oldskool amiga....

I've had my BPPC for about six years now with no RTG card... Trying to get hold of one is more difficult than finding a decent program to watch on the BBC on a Sunday morning...

[fitzsteve]

I've had my BPPC for about six years now with no RTG card... Trying to get hold of one is more difficult than finding a decent program to watch on the BBC on a Sunday morning...

Whats wrong with Match of the Day?

[Franko]

Whats wrong with Match of the Day?

We don't get Match of the Day here in Scotland...

[nicholas]

I've never run OS4 on a classic machine (though I plan to once I can get my BPPC cards working again) so I can't comment on what that's like...

OS4.1 on BPPC/240/256 with BVision is VERY NICE!!!

[tone007]

OS4.1 on BPPC/240/256 with BVision is VERY NICE!!!

I thought classic only got up to OS4.0.

[guest7146]

I thought classic only got up to OS4.0.

I thought so too.  I've often expressed an opinion that I'd like to see OS4.1 for classics, if it's not too much trouble for Hyperion to do so, but my understanding is they haven't (yet) and they've neither confirmed or denied that there ever will be an update for classics.  Last I heard they were reviewing it.

AH.

[kickstart]

You can run morphos too

[tone007]

You can run morphos too

I thought that required an RTG board, otherwise I probably would've tried it.

[Franko]

Amiga OS4.0 on a Blizzard060/PPC @60/240Mhz, is like running your Amiga on chipmem only. Windows & icons are dreadfully slow to display on a 640x512 screen, not to mention the amount of crashes with JIT when running a lot of older Amiga Software.

Also a lot of the software for it requires a much bigger screensize (although you can slide windows on and of the screen) it's really quite annoying when a window opens up and you have to move it all over the place just to be able to use it. You can run an emulator like Frodo faster and better on the 060 side using OS3.x.

If you're going to run OS4.0 on this type of board without an RTG then expect to be quite disappointed, also Hyperion last updated it in 2007 not long after it was released and seem to have dropped support for it since. OS4.1 will not run on a classic Amiga set up.

[nicholas]

I thought classic only got up to OS4.0.

It did for lay people.

OS4.1 Beta for Classic is alive and well though.

[nicholas]

OS4.1 will not run on a classic Amiga set up.

I was using just last weekend and I daresay I'll probably be doing so tomorrow evening too.

Don't be fooled by the signature.

[fishy_fiz]

I was massively disappointed with my bppc card when it worked. I'd have prefered an '060 card as at least it wouldve benefitted everyday use. Being restricted to a handful of ppc software it's a very expensive proposition, and somewhat useless for something like os4.x or MOS (way too slow for "modern computing use... sure the OSes run ok, but modern software still needs more resources than this sort of retro gear can provide, stick with old 68k type software and youre fine, but in that case why use the ppc at all?). There was a handful of software that ppc was good for (heretic2/wipoeout2097/some emulators (c64/snes/megadrive/mame/mess/etc)/mp3 player/mp3 decoding/videos), but mostly the '040 got in the way. In short, the experience wasnt what I was hoping (although '060+ppc mightve been a better experience,.... bppc '040 left you wanting(Even with RTG (I had a grex a1200 and voodoo3)).