apollo vs blizzard vs gvp

[Dwyloc]

As an Apollo 030/50 and BlizzardPPC 060 owner I can confirm that the Apollo card has faster chipmem access than the BlizzardPPC card but fastmem access on my 060/50 603/200 with SCSI is at lest as fast as the Apollo 030 card.

As such for running AGA games the Apollo card is better but for everything else the BlizzardPPC is much better.

[Dwyloc]

Hyperspeed wrote:
I would get the FPU... make it a 50Mhz PGA FPU if you have the Blizzard 1230-IV in mind.

The FPU will get used by games like Gloom, Alien Breed 3D, AB3D2: The Killing Grounds, Breathless, Doom, XTreme Racing, TFX and more.

Not true I have all the games you listed, the only Amiga games that support or use the FPU are TFX and ClickBoom’s Quake port.

[Dwyloc]

I would go with an 030 with about 8MB of fast ram for playing games as that’s what I had connected to my Apollo 030 card and I could play all my classic games without problems.  That includes playing WHDLoad versions with the preload into ram option turned on.

[Dwyloc]

3246251196 wrote:
what type of Amiga user needs an FPU then?

thanks for reply, Patrik

If you want to run Vista, Lightwave or something like that then you need an FPU.  But Today you would be beter of using a PC and winUAE with JIT as it is alot faster than any classic Amiga will ever be.