Not much new to tell here, but I started to get a bit bummed out in the last thread about my nw accelerator, so I thought Id start a new one, this time more consistantly positive
Anyway, long story short, my "new" '040 accelerator arrived a few days ago, I was a happy camper, but then I started having problems transferring anything "useful" to it, so I was stuck with a nice classic amiga but nothing to do on it. Finally I got my transferring data issues sorted, transferred a shedload of stuff onto the drive and am having the absolute blast I should have been having a few days ago
The fastest 680x0 cpu I'd ever had before now in a classic amiga is a 25mhz '040 (68k side of a bppc card), and unless my memory is playing tricks on the, the "new" apollo 1240@40mhz is a lot quicker. My 1st thing I tried when I finally got the system working, and with stuff to play with is AB3D2:TKG, and Im pleasantly surprised at how fast it is. With the turbopatch installed I can play full screen (but shrunk vertically a bout an inch or 2 at top and bottom) quite nicely
Think I'll play no.1 1st though, followed by number 2. TKG is definately a good hardware tester though, which is why I jumped straight onto that
I checked out a few scene demos too. It's amazing what people managed to squeeze ot of the humble ol' 68k cpu + aga. I really enjoyed watching Lapsuus on real hardware rather than Youtube
Anyway, I'll leave it at that for now, I have some Amiga stuff to play with (I suspect there's going to be more than a few late nights coming up
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Many thanks to those who sympathised/encouraged/offered various types of help over the last few days when I was frustrated with trying to transfer data to my amiga
