potential PPC Amiga REAL CHEAP

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Even Windows 95 booted with 16MiB of RAM.

Actually you COULD Run W95 on a machine with 8 MiB of RAM (minimum spec was 16, but I think 8 was possible as well).

On a sidenote. Some guys have stripped down w95 < 5 MiB total, and w98 < 8-9 MiB total (lacking everything, but still runnable).


Even an encumbering hulk like Windows 2000 runs on 32 MiB of RAM (installed it myself on a pII 333, slow as hell).

(Before anyone asks, Mi = MegaBinary = (2^10)^2 = 1048576; Tired of erroneous usage of Mega. (IEEE standard) )

Oh and lou_dias, I know you feel "shot down". The idea is great, but from my reading this forum for some time I gather that these people have been burnt to many times to jump on this train before something is proven. So do a thourough analysis and come back here then.

Despite the fact that Billt has a business to run he was right initially, if you want something done you had better do it yourself.

(Oh and Me having a HD-less a500 stashed away does not make me an Amiga-guy, so file me under PC-looser (PC as in w2k@Amd64))

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About the Dreamcast...

If I recall correctly, the dreacast featured a ~200 mhz MIPS(EDIT:Thanks Waccoon), and a Power-VR2 graphics chip.

If you recall, SEGA used two devteams, kind of like apple back in the beginning(AppleII versus Mac?? help me here). One US team and one Japanese team.

The US team featured a 3Dfx chip and its rendition of the dreamcast was more powerful.

Unfortunately 3Dfx did an IPO (initial public stock offering), and released all facts about the not yet signed contract. SEGA didn't like this, so they cancelled the whole US dev team and went with the other alternative (before the IPO from 3Dfx, the US team's idea was basically chosen)

http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/june03/dumbestmoments/readers/index3.shtml

Makes me sad to read.
Despite the fact that this might not have helped 3Dfx retain the 3D performance crown it might have kept the company alive.