Fastest 68k Amiga

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Hi

Some months ago I received a command for a work, a SCALA presentation to display Dpaint Anims for friend's art project. With Octamed-made music & bleeps. I sketched a lot, then fired up my 4000 and started DPaint'ing, adpro'ing, and now it's looking&sounding good enough to be shown to my friends, and that was yesterday night. To summarize, they loved it. But they also added a lot to the storyboard, in fact we blew it up, keeping some sequences& modules, trashing most.

In the meantime I got a job. Don't worry, everything will make sense in a minute.

[color=ff0000]I want a new Amiga. [/color][/b]
No so much because the ones I already have (My Old 1Meg A500, a 8meg 1230/50 w/o FPU and a 24meg SCSI'd 4000d) are not doing the job, they do, but I'm very afraid about one of these machines failing on me, I mean a part that I could'nt replace, I see prices skyrocket on ebay, and the 68k line slowly but surely entering the "vintage" aisle... And really, I could use a little speed boost. I never, in my living life, even SAW a '060 Miggy run.
So I want a new Amiga. A fast one. I got money. Just give me the thing.

What I want is a fast A1200, and I'm considering a mediator, or any other PCI bridgeboard, to expand it. But.
# What good is this solution really, when you only have a 060 CPU to power it ?
# I understand that once you use a graphic card other than the AGA chipset, your choices of graphic apps are reduced, but to what exactly ? What apps can be used on such a machine to do 2D anim, like DPaint&Brilliance do ?
# Can the TV-Out that I know the Voodoo3 has (I had one AGP version on a PC) be used to output 16b color animations to a TV ?

Thank you for any info that you can give me. Oh, and Amigakit rules. Thank you very much, M.

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leirbag28 wrote:

Question:

How did you get Octamed MEDs to play on SCALA?

 it only Plays MODS.

Would love to see your presentation, as I am a SCALA freak!


EDIT:

@Piru

Um....if I am not mistaken......the fastest Amiga WinUAE can emulate is a 68040, and even thats not as slick.

Yes, but 'Med outputs MODs happily.
As for UAE, I'm not sure about what is said here. I was wondering, among other things, if there are users, here, using PCI bridgeboards *without* a PPC accel..?

In fact, I'm happy with what I have now, I mean the AGA chipset and it's 15Hz TV-Out. But the framerate can be improved, and maybe the number of colours ? I'd love to put real 16bits sound samples as well, but I'm really wondering how those PCI cards are "blending" in the Amiga environment ?

And leirbag28, well, when the Visual it's finished you'll see it, I promise. On TV. But maybe not prime time. :-D

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Wow.
More replies than I even expected, thank you guys. This helped a lot, specially when it comes to graphic output.

For this very job I'm gonna stick with the AGA chipset, and just buy a 060 1200 with a SCSI kit and 256M RAM. Think about it, it's a really kickass Video machine we're talking about here ! Too bad there are no practical solution to speed up AGA, but then again on such a machine it *should* go faster than on my 24Mg SCSI 1 A4000d.

I'm really disappointed by the fact that the BlizzardPPC is  no longer available (or is it not ?), as I would have love to try it, along w/ a BVision3D.

Because heck, from AmigaKit at least, this is the LAST graphic card available for (non-PCI) 68k Amiga !

I decided that I wont' buy a mediator, prometheus or any similar product w/o actually seeing such a machine run to see if it can do what I want it to. So basically, I'm now looking for an Amiga event somewhere in BENEFLUK (Belgium, Nederlands, France, Luxemburg(?), UK)

The Emu talk was also quite refreshing. I'm already running a UAE under Linux on a 2Gig Athlon, and yes it rocks, but not when it comes to DPaint Anims in a SCALA pres w/ Paula sounds.
BTW, I though that Amithlon was no longer available ? Where can I grab a copy ? And why could it be faster than UAE ?

But I also have to say : I'm a sucker for Amiga HW. I don't know, I just love it. When I see my A1200 (& my even older A500 too!) running as we talk, and think of... (I don't really remember when I bought it, what I do remember is that win95 was *not* out yet at that time) the NUMBER of machines that failed on me :madashell: in the meantime (you'd be skeptic), I'm more than puzzled, I'm SOLD. A1200 just rules, if you ask me. Oh, and there's the crisp TV output, that never ceased to :crazy: amaze me. I want to be sure I'll still have a real Amiga running in Ten years.

Thank you very much to all of you for your answers.

Yesterday nigh I was at the studio, where my '030 1200 is, we had a long work night ahead, but, while waiting for the girl that was to do some voiceover samples, we started a Super Skidmarks game on the BIG lobby TV, that lasted the better part of the night But the animation (now called "MUR, Meat Us Residents" - pun intended) is really shaping up. When finished it will be a 3.20 minutes non-interactive SCALA visual presentation, and aired (yikes!) by a local TV here for an art show. I'll keep you posted.

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I forgot about this thread. Just to catch up, I finally found the killer video-station I was looking for. All the 3D is going to be made in blender on PCs, but all video mastering&genlocking (&TBC'ing) will be handled by the Miggy, not to mention 2D anim.
Allelujah. :angel: