Classic Amiga for Web Browsing

[delshay]

A lot depends on the setup what performance you can get out of A1200. The more you overclock the chances are its going to be unstable.

Stability is key to enjoying any computer,and this is what I worked on for some time now and can enjoy web browsing on a very high speed A1200 with no stability issues whatsoever in a standard A1200 desktop.

The bus speed is a important factor here,but a increase in bus speed normally makes the computer unstable, fix this and you have a very fast stable computer.

Here I have 75Mhz bus as standard,but expect for sure a new world record for dram bandwidth on classic amiga, but also expect blizzard card to close the gap to 100Mhz users of apollo card from its current 96Mhz when overclocking is allowed in second half of 2013.

[delshay]

OS 4.1 speed (browsing and most other things) is fine; I only notice "stuff" because of my ISP speed and with programs written for AmigaNG machines.  Granted I am running OS 4.1 on a CSPPC at 200/50 and there is a difference between a BPPC and a CSPPC (603 vs 604).

As for browsing speed in OS 4, Ibrowse is quick; AWeb, OWB & NetSurf use more memory but are more "modern" in they way they handle current pages.  In OS 3.x, none of the browsers -- to the best of my knowledge -- use the PPC for rendering, but Ibrowse and Voyager work well.  An RTG helps not just with colors and resolution, but also with rendering speed.

If my opinions are wrong, feel free to comment, but please to call me an "idiot" or otherwise embarrass me in the forums.

BPPC V CSPPC

BPPC overall has the upper hand here. CSPPC has CPU power,but BPPC has 256MB of very high speed memory access which can match or outperform CSPPC.

BPPC PCI bus standard has also changed along with Bvision sgram.

If timberwolf memory is kept low expect this to work on BPPC.

NOTE: you are going to need very high speed memory access and meet the minimum specification set out below,but some or all modifications is not available as some modification has not been tested on OS4.x due to software support.

CPU power minimum specification is also set to change no overclocking and its not a 603e.
I can confirm BPPC has already set a world record on classic amiga for dram bandwidth to further increase its memory performance over CSPPC.

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