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Re: Buying SAM 460 to replace my PC
« on: February 18, 2012, 11:55:50 PM »
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If I buy the Apollo 1260 would I be able to run all WHDLOAD games with no problem? Would it effect my gaming compatibility? Thanks in advance.


A 68030 card is the most compatible with whdload games, on a 68060 card some games do have slowdown problems with whdload. I owned a Cyberstorm PPC card with 060 and games like Sensible Soccer and Chaos Engine had slowdown problems.

IMHO stick with a 030 card if you mainly play whdload games on your Amiga.
 

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Re: Buying SAM 460 to replace my PC
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2012, 12:06:35 AM »
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Really? I have a sam440ep and i was always under the impression that it was a NG amiga or was i mislead?

Yep, it's just an Amiga clone like Aros and MorphOS. IMHO no matter how much money you spend on it, it's still not a real Amiga. 97% of the software available for OS4 is just a mediocre to bad Linux port. Sorry but everything you can run on a 1000+$ Sam440ep runs better on a 50$ x86 running Linux.
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Re: Buying SAM 460 to replace my PC
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2012, 11:24:20 PM »
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Don't worry dude.
Its a Amiga "clone" with hardware that's much more powerful then a "real" Amiga.
All NG Amiga's are designed to have 3.1 API compatibility. No hardware compatibility, but the hardware is obsolete.
So you can wait for a hobbyist to invent a FPGA based "new" Amiga, or move on.

Purists are always going to throw that term "emulation" around, but emulation runs circles around "real" its time to get over it.

Uhh, I'm not worried at all dude :p

I've used MorphOS from 2003 until 2010 so I know what I'm talking about, It's one of the two reasons I stopped using MorphOS allthough I liked it and IMHO it's by far the best AmigaOS clone out there but I totally lost interrest in MorphOS and any of the other alternative Amiga OS's. I'm happy with my real Amiga's, they do what I expect them to do and there's tons of software written especially for them.

It's got notting to do with the term 'purist' or ' emulation' at all, I just came to the conclusion that I can run all the software (mostly Linux ports) available for the clone's much better and faster on cheaper  and easily available hardware with my preferred OS (Linux), so why should I waste my money, time and effort with any of the clone's when I allready got what I want and need.

It's not the OS that made the Amiga famous, it was the software written for it which was innovative and the creativity of its users, sadly none of the alternatives bring that to the table.
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