New A4000, some questions...

[TjLaZer]

A 040/25MHz is faster than a 030/50Mhz period. About twice as fast.  Even with no local memory.  Of course if you had local 32bit mem it would be even faster.

Again most games hit the hardware and do not seem to run faster/slower in relation to the CPU.  Even on my 060/66MHz the games run almost normal speed.  Though I sometimes have to turn off the cache but that still is faster than a 030.  But some games seem to use the extra horsepower, like Gloom, Doom and Quake.

[TjLaZer]

@holley

If you read what I said, local memory will speed it up, but it is not that much faster.  (local memory is what a 1240 would have, or a blizzard 1260)

[TjLaZer]

!!!WARNING!!!

If your battery is a NiCad remove it NOW!  The Amiga 4000 is prone to RTC and SIMM damage with very little battery leakage!!!  I had 2 so I know.  The solder risist wasn't even tarnished and it looked fine, BUT the RTC was not working.

Remove the Battery now, it is not needed for the 4000 to work, just a date stamp for files.

[TjLaZer]

@alberonn

You don't have to disable any 16bit RAM in the 4000 if you have higher priority 32bit RAM!  My 4000 has 2MB Chip, 16MB on the MB, 128MB on a DKB 3128 and 128MB on the GVP-m 4060 card!  It runs the same with or without the slower RAMs.  The way it works the system sets a priority to the RAM.  I think Chip is like -2, 16bit RAM is -1, MB RAM is 0 and 32bit RAM on a CPU card is like 3 or something.  What happends is the system always uses the higher priority RAM, then when all of that is exhausted, it uses the lower priority RAM until all RAM is used up.  So unless I use up 128MB of RAM, my system will never suffer from the slower RAM.

[TjLaZer]

@magnetic

Isn't that a little steep for a 040 card in 2004?  You can get a 060 card for ~$300 on eBay.

[TjLaZer]

Ahh yes indeed.  Having 272MB of FAST Ram on the Amiga is greeaat... lol  I just like having it, I hardly ever use it. (I got this DKB 3128 for $25 on eBay in 2002)

[TjLaZer]

@alberonn

Check out my image gallery for my screenshot.

Here is a direct link.  I guess I had 237MB left... lol

http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=501

[TjLaZer]

@xray,

I am using 1024X768 and I use Picasso 96 on a Cybervision 64.  It runs nice and fast especially at 66MHz.

[TjLaZer]

Cyberstorm MKII 68060 @ 66MHz 128MB:             31.21MB/s
A4000 Motherboard 16MB with speed ramsey:   16.10MB/s
DKB 3128 128MB RAM Card ZIII:              10.78MB/s
2MB Chip RAM:                               6.18MB/s

Woot!