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Savan wrote:
Slow and Expensive would be A1200 with BlizzardPPC / BVision.
Slow and expensive includes the Amigaone, unless nearly 600 quid for a motherboard with out-of-date specs is your idea of cheap.
I will admit to having never seen a Blizzard in action, but just going on the generation and clock (!) difference between a 603e at ~100MHz and a G3 at 800MHz.
An A1 is expensive, but I wouldnt say slow - it just has lower numbers compared to PC hardware (I'll stick up for meself here by saying that comparing a BPPC and A1 is one thing, but compareing x86 and PPC is quite another)
besides, I didnt factor in the price. If I wanted cheap, I coulda had a Windo$e lap warmer for that price.
and isnt the BPPC the same only more so (re out of date specs, etc).
So you've not used OS4 on an A1 then...
Yes i have and it was very fast, but it does not matter how fast it runs, when the hardware cost so damn much just for the privilege.[/quote]
true, you make a good point, but what else was I gonna run it on, when I didnt want 2nd hand hardware ? I'm afraid I must reiterate the hoary old argument that numbers count, and if Eyetech had been able to run batches of 10k or even 100k the board would have been a lot cheaper. still, not bad for an experimental board!
I finally just got round to installing update 4 - I managed to copy the contents of the install iso image using MountISO - and installed onto the partition recently vacated by update 2. not played so far, but it looks very good - way better than update 3.
I might even venture that Hyperion are one of the better things to happen to Amiga, countering that with The various owners being some of the worst.
