Thursday night specials..

[doctorq]

motorollin wrote:
That does seem to be a good price. Couldn't go back to an 040 though, not after using an 060 :-)

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moto

It's not that much of a stepback when the PPC CPU is there. At least now he can play Quake 2, and have a go with MorphOS :-)

[doctorq]

AMIGAZ wrote:

Yep, and the PPC datatypes helps alot too
Quite pleased with my '040 BlizzPPC here, it's slower than a '060 but you can live with it..it's all a matter of tweaking to get the best performance  ;-)

Exactly. For some wierd reason I have started using my A1200T 040/160 quite a bit, while my A4000 060/233 just stands doing nothing :-(

[doctorq]

@motorollin

Yeah, 040 would be slow, but as AMIGAZ pointed out, there are PPC datatypes. These run about 3 times as fast as the 040 datatypes, and since the datatypes takes care of the PowerIcons and your truecolor backdrop, you won't loose anything at all.

Even the Warp3D ppc demo on the lowest spec PPC, regardless of which 68k will kick the 060 demos ass.

[doctorq]

Crumb wrote:

I mostly agree with Motorollin... using a 040 after being used to 060's speed hurts

I never said it didn't, but using a 040 with PPC CPU is faster than using a 040 only based board, and the PPC executes tasks much faster than the 060, for instance with datatypes.