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Re: Amithlon cpu speeds and emulator for games?
« on: August 05, 2011, 09:42:11 PM »
Voodoo 3, and I have your network card you need.
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Re: Amithlon cpu speeds and emulator for games?
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2011, 03:27:39 AM »
In my experience, the speed increase for non-game applications is far better and the lack of Microshaft overhead makes for a nicer experience. Until I get another Amiga, I'm making myself an AMD machine with Amithlon I can use for tinkering and boredom, and maybe development, if I can find some good tutorials for 68k assembly and C coding on the Amiga, then maybe I can try my hand at porting some applications for use on classic amiga, Amithlon and MorphOS as I alread have a MOS machine.
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Re: Amithlon cpu speeds and emulator for games?
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2011, 04:15:14 PM »
Voodoo 3 supports non-VESA modes and is quite fast, I had a P3 750 with a Voodoo 3, and I used it for classic mac emulation, it was blazingly fast and I had a nice speed on the desktop.

A good replacement on AMithlon for Warp3d is Wazp3d, a w3d comaptible software renderer. Thats whats on my second AMithlon machine right now, and all future ones I build.
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Re: Amithlon cpu speeds and emulator for games?
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2011, 01:25:47 AM »
The Geforce 2-4 are very good, the Radeon 9250 is also good.
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Re: Amithlon cpu speeds and emulator for games?
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2011, 02:33:28 AM »
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Re: Amithlon cpu speeds and emulator for games?
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2011, 06:12:13 AM »
That list is definitely outdated. Refresh rate support was on my old voodoo PC, I needed to use P96 and manually link the 3dfx driver to the PowerFB driver. Software 3d (wazp) is necessary with any good system (1.5GHz and above in my experience) and it really makes a difference, you get wayy more speed in 3D games (Quake was one I managed to run at a reasonable speed.)
My machines:
PowerMac G4 MDD 1.5ghz 1.25GB 10.5.8 & MOS 2.7
Mac Mini C2D 10.6.8 2GHz 3GB 250GB HDD
MacBook Retina 16GB 256GB SSD 10.8
iPad 2
Underground Gamer invites (a classic game site) PM

Need a part for a PC or Mac? PM me, I\'ll let you know if I come across it.

OS X trumps Windows on every level.

MorphOS, OS4 and Classic Amiga systems are the only ones who are real \'Amigas\', not that joke AROS or Amiga Forever.