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Offline Legerdemain

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Re: Power Tower availability?
« on: January 06, 2006, 02:50:02 PM »
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Edit: I've found somewhere with that board in stock. Would it be worth upgrading with the 1260 instead? Or is that going to kill a lot of games?


Really... if you're going for the games, I'd NOT go for the 060.

There are some few newer games that are programmed to run fast on the 060, but many of them... (Napalm, Quake and some others) are way too demading to play well even on the 060. And, concerning the older games, they all (but moste of the 3D ones) will play just as fine on a 030.

Unless you are about to play MP3's, run some of the more demanding demos and toy around in Workbench (using a GFX-card)  together with some GFX apps and other a bit power demanding applications, I can't not say that the huge difference in price between, say, a Blizzard 1230 and a Blizzard 1260 is worth it. Really.
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Re: Power Tower availability?
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2006, 05:47:00 PM »
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LOL I must own one of the stupidest Amiga setups of all time, my specs Amiga1200 in power tower,60 gig hdd, bppc 060@50mhz/PPC@240mhz 144meg, mediator c/w voodoo3 2000,sb128, ps2 Cocolino adaptor,nec 4x4 changer and LiteOn cdr/DVD burner,17inch PC monitor and a 14 inch 1084s monitor(due to scan doubler breaking on Xmas) I call this setup stupid as I mostly play treasure island dizzy which i could of saved myself hundred of £'s by buying an a500 with half a meg to play dizzy. but i have to admit I like upgrading my Amiga and it has been fun and I've meet alot of good people thru upgrading.


No, not stupid at all. In the end you can do what you just did. Drop the specifications of what you have, say something like "I only play DIzzy", and make the jaws drop on EVERYONE that reads it, wishing they had the same setup, almost considering offering you some money to buy what you have and "don't use" that much.

Oh, well.

 ;-)
Amiga 1200, Mirage Tower, PC-Key 1200, Blizzard 1260/50, SCSI Kit, 256MB RAM, 40GB HD, Mediator SX, Soundblaster 128, Voodoo 3 and Realtek 8139.