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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: DyLucke on September 17, 2008, 01:11:28 PM

Title: A1200 + Amitek Hawk
Post by: DyLucke on September 17, 2008, 01:11:28 PM

Hi there, i would like to know if fitting an FPU into my Amitek RAM expansion would be worth the price.

I believe i need a 68882 plcc plus the oscillator.
So if is worth the effort where could i get it and what kind of programs aside raytracing would use it?
Will i get some overall performance improvement using OS?

Thank you!

Title: Re: A1200 + Amitek Hawk
Post by: Illuwatar on September 17, 2008, 09:43:59 PM

I don't You will see any improvement in performance for applications that aren't built to use the FPU. As it is purely designed for floating point math, there are no reason for integer counting apps to use it anyway. The operating system is one of them...