79 available systems for MorphOS 3.5

[ChaosLord]

I wish you would list how much chipram each of the Macs in your list comes with.

I am only interested in one with at least 128MB chipram. (gfx card ram)

I am sure others feel the same way as me.

Furthermore I am only interested in the models that support gfx of at least 1280x1024 resolution with 32bits per pixel.

I know absolutely nothing about mac hardware.

[ChaosLord]

That would have been nice to have in the list, yes. Unfortunately there seems to be no way to edit the posts now. But you can always click the links to get very detailed information of each and every machine, including GFX cards. Later models generally have better specs.





64MB is really sufficient for most (no kidding), and even 32MB works fine without any noticeable sacrifices.

Just so you know!

If I code a game for MOS I need 128MB chipram at a bare cramped minimum for a 1280x1024x32bpp game.

If I am limited to 32MB chipram then the framerate would drop a lot and the coding of the game would be really annoying and just not worth it to me.

It kind of sounds like what a lot of ppl are telling me is:
1. A lot of MOS users cannot even display 1280x1024 gfx because some users have those old imacs with the built-in lores monitor that can NEVER be upgraded.

2. A lot of the MOS users who can display 1280x1024 (or higher) screens have only small amounts of chipram like 32MB or 64MB because nobody ever bothered to make some awesome games that use more than that.

So it sounds like if I made a MOS game I would be limited to like 5 MOS users in the whole world that could play it.  Would that be accurate?

[ChaosLord]

@chaoslord

Define "awesome game"...

The kind that needs 128MB+ of Chipram


What is the most chipram I can get in a MOS machine?

The Radeon cards I looked at for oldsk00l Classic Amigas have 256MB of RAM on them but they are split into 2 banks of 128MB.  Due to the way P96 and CGX are coded, they can only use one bank of ram so they are stuck with only 128MB of RTG RAM which cramps me.

[ChaosLord]

What!?

:huh:



No.

A couple of years ago I looked at some MOS Macs and they were permanently limited to 1024x768.  I was warned not to get one of those.  Now that I have your reassurance, I feel very glad that they did not become popular in the MOS community.

[ChaosLord]

Maybe you worded it a bit misunderstandable. Desktop resolutions of far above 1024x768 are possible with _every_ MorphOS computer (even my old MorphOS 0.4 A1200/BVision 8MB ran 1280x1024).

The machine I was thinking of was a Mac where the whole computer was built into the monitor.  The monitor only accepted 1024x768 max.  So the computer hardware was limited to 1024x768.  Therefore MOS was limited to 1024x768.  This is what I was told.

Not MorphOS's fault.  :uzi:Apple's fault.



I am very glad that most MorphOS machines can display 1280x1024 or higher. :banana: