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A600GS & A1200NG / Re: Power comparison
« Last post by J-Golden on November 14, 2025, 08:49:34 PM »
https://www.amigaretro.com/index.php?page=Vampire-V4SA

Standalone Vampire V4 - 181.5 Mips

My "Boosted" A1200 NG using the same sysinfo. 270Mips mips as attatched.
Unboosted it is about 210-215 mips.

Sysinfo 3x too old.

270 is more than 181 last I checked.

And you'd be right.  ;)

I figured out what was causing all my confusion.  It wasn't the Vampire, it was the Pimiga benchmarks I was looking at.  ;D

Now THOSE have blazing speeds with Mips of 1342.  But with the Accel. board coming out for the A1200NG, Mr. Leaman said it will be 5 times faster.  So, taking the current 270Mips x 5 you get 1,350.  THAT'S what I remember seeing and calculating and it all makes more sense now that I'm comparing the right boards.  8)

Here is the interview where Matt spills the beans on the speed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8GZSr3OeE4
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A600GS & A1200NG / Re: Power comparison
« Last post by asm1 on November 14, 2025, 06:45:44 PM »
I've been trying to find some side-by-side comparisons of the A1200NG to other stand alone systems.  The info I first found (can't find it now  :( ) put the A1200NG way below other offerings, but with the proposed Turbo card, it will be much faster than anything else.

Has anyone put together such a comparison?

https://www.amigaretro.com/index.php?page=Vampire-V4SA

Standalone Vampire V4 - 181.5 Mips

My "Boosted" A1200 NG using the same sysinfo. 270Mips mips as attatched.
Unboosted it is about 210-215 mips.

Sysinfo 3x too old.

270 is more than 181 last I checked.
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A600GS & A1200NG / Re: Power comparison
« Last post by J-Golden on November 14, 2025, 06:23:09 PM »
Fair enough to both questions.

I was looking at pictures of SYSInfo for several different systems and was comparing the Dhrystones and Mips.  I know there is a lot more that figures into it, but I kept it simple.

But now I can't seem to find the numbers I originally saw.

It basically came down to the Vampire (I think) was a lot faster, but with the specs mentioned (in one interview, AmigaKit said the A1200NG was going the be about "X" times faster then it currently is) the Accel. Card coming, the A1200NG surpasses it.
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Ok, I used to use my A600GS a lot, often just for playing some A500/A1200 games from ADF (sometimes WHDLoad) but there are games that are not very demanding BUT will not run smooth on the A600GS and so I´ve put it away some time ago. But let me explain ...

Two examples :

The Lost Pixel : https://amiga-factory.itch.io/projectlp
Casltevania AGA : https://danteretrodev.itch.io/akumajou-dracula-aga

Both have slowdowns, The Lost Pixel got stuttering music (like hell) even in the menu and the game is unplayable slow ...

Hi SkulleateR and others in the thread,

Thanks for all the research and reporting your various settings. I am wondering if you have had any success with these titles? I just got a A1200NG and downloaded the latest version of CastlevaniaAGA (October 31, 2025) I am running the .HDF and am getting slowdowns especially on the first level. Creeping Me Out Hex Night is experiencing slowdowns as well. I am currently trying Demo 2. https://mixelslab.itch.io/creeping-me-out-hex-night I notice all these games were made with Scorpion Engine. Could there be something with Scorpion engine and A600GS/A1200NG? They run smoothly on my other emulation devices. I have tried them via AmiBench, the provided .HDF, and my own vanilla OS3.1 .HDF install. Let me know if you got any of these working smoothly. I will keep trying as well and report back if I get them working properly. Another weird one is that the classic demo State of the Art by Spaceballs slows down in a couple of parts as well. I am running that one from ADF in the launcher. Thanks so much!
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A600GS & A1200NG / Re: A600GS starts intermittently
« Last post by janikosk78 on November 14, 2025, 12:42:03 PM »
A new SBC board arrived in the mail today and I installed it in its place. I did some tests and played a few games, restarted and shut the device down through the menu. It hasn’t frozen at any point now, so it seems to be working! The original SD card is in use and there are no issues, so I guess the problem must have been with the board itself? Thanks. I’ll keep testing it over the weekend and let you know if anything comes up, but so far it looks good.  8)
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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: Amiga 3000 new owner
« Last post by MrChocky on November 14, 2025, 12:05:33 PM »
Thank you, this is helpful background information.

I understand about the mismatched KS vs WB, but it remains that with KS 3.1 and WB 3.1 (Sorry, I had said 3.2), WB consistently crashes at start up if the drive is attached. This would
seem to preclude much in the way of software investigation/configuration. The KS 3.1 plus WB 1.3 combo at least let me verify the drive, even if it is "wrong". Maybe investigation in this
direction is ultimately pointless, but I mention it for completeness.

Anyway, the drive itself is an internal Quantum 525S. Maybe it's a replacement, who knows. I have verified its termination jumper is set. Also supplied with the machine are an external SCSI scanner and CD drive, so who knows what the full setup of this machine was previously. I connected those yesterday to see if the effect was the same, and it was.

As noted in this thread:

https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=113367

"This is the 100000000th thread about this topic"

In fact, although there are lots of A3000 motherboard pictures, I can't find a good one of the termination resistors. I was waiting until my coin cell holder (still not shipped!) came before stripping the machine down and taking a proper look.

Perhaps the drive is just faulty, or there's some termination configuration I need to try, or some other incantation. I welcome suggestions on other things to look at.


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A600GS & A1200NG / Re: A1200NG- tinkering
« Last post by broadblues on November 14, 2025, 08:45:33 AM »
Open a shell in AmiBench

copy from envarc:Sys/def_disk.info to Work:Disk.info

you will probably have to resnapshot the icon

Alternatively just do

delete work:disk.info

and you will get a def_Disk.icon, which can be resnapshoted to the position of your choice and become a real icon
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Amiga User Group News / Next FCUG meeting - Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025
« Last post by RobertB on November 14, 2025, 12:48:43 AM »
Happy World Kindness Day, FCUG members and guests!
     The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 2:30+ p.m., Sunday, November 16, at

  Panera Bread Restaurant
  3590 W. Shaw Ave. (corner of W. Shaw Ave. and Marty Ave.)
  Fresno, CA 93711
  (559) 271-0104
  http://www.dickestel.com/meet_loc.htm

     In discussion we'll look at the newest issue of Compute's Gazette magazine.  Also we’ll see raw footage for the *2026* commercial for the Commodore Los Angeles Super Show!  I will tell of the recent developments that occurred or were announced at the Nov. 1-2 Amiwest Show.
     In hardware, we’ll look at a European, plastic C128D, which was modded by Ray Carlsen to have a modern, North American power supply.  Also we’ll try to run the newest version of TRIANGULAR microOS on the C128 (our previous tries failed due to an error code in the other versions).  The Ultimate 64 returns, as does the AmigaOne A1222+ which has been updated to Final Edition update 3 and also few more OS4 games/apps.

          Back in California,
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group -
          http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
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A600GS & A1200NG / Re: No "Cpu Boost" Option in menu system
« Last post by asm1 on November 13, 2025, 10:47:34 PM »
Fixed

Many Many thanks to Mr @F0LLETT

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A600GS & A1200NG / Re: A1200NG- tinkering
« Last post by asm1 on November 13, 2025, 09:27:31 PM »
That was changed or later systems, that doesn't get updated remotely though, so feel free to replace the icon with the disk image of your choice :-)

I would if I knew where to look.... haha
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