My 1230/56 from amigakit arrived today!

[runequester]

I am so happy

Replacing my 3.0 ROM's took a bit of fiddling, but finally they fit in right. The accelerator card itself is super small. My old one was a lot longer. It fit like a charm, and my miggy booted up nice.

Seeing 64 megs of RAM available is nice, and alien breed 3D runs super slick now.

Fears runs decent in max screen size (its just a slow game)
Gloom deluxe felt a bit pokey but definately playable.
Breathless is still unplayable in max size but reduce it a bit and it moves at a decent clip.

Gonna test out Doom and see what I get out of it.

[runequester]

What is recommended for system tests and where do I get it? ANything on aminet to try?

Even Doom runs pretty good in AGA and 320x200 (adoom), though maxing out the screen size isn't a good idea. But even reduced a tiny bit, it runs great. Better than my friends old 386 back in the day


The 3.1 ROMs were kind of a bitch. The first one clicked in pretty good... then I realized only one row of legs were in the socket, the other was sitting neatly... all outside the socket. Took a bit of messing around.

I guess I'll hang on to the spare card just in case I finally get another 1200

[runequester]

Alright, ran tests with AIBB

Not too sure what some of these tests indicate, so just reproducing the numbers here

For comparison, I included the numbers given for an A4000 in parenthesis, which the system assumes is the 040, with 4 megs fast RAM added.
EDIT: These numbers are all in comparison to a stock A600.

Linetest - 2.53 (1.87)

Savage test - 13.51 (a4000 14.x1)

Fmath test - 11.67 (16.18)

Fmatrix test - 13.64 (11.45)

Beachball - 16.07 (18.69)

InstTest 14.24 (10.05)

Flops - 13.3 (16.92)

Trantest - 13.89 (15.18)

Ftrace - 13.61 (15.58)

Cplxtest - 12.94 (15.28)

Ellipsetest - 7.64 (5.46)

Matrix - 15.18 (12.17)

Imath - 15.7 (17.15)

Memtest 15 (3.48)

TGtest 4.44 (3.81)

Emutest 13.28 (16.72)

Writepixel 8.72 (15.33)

Sieve 15.6 (10.54)

Dhrystone 14.53 (19.2)

Sort 16.21 (19.52)


Looks like this card is pretty close to an A4000 in several areas, overtaking it in some. Not shabby for a little 1200

My conclusion would probably be, if you already got an 040 or 060 card, you may not benefit from this. If you need an accelerator, get this for sure. Especially at the price given.


Had some trouble with sysinfo, but I'll keep messing with it

[runequester]

As an update, I just installed Genetic Species today. I can't run it at the highest res, as it gets pretty choppy, but reduce it one or two steps, and it runs really smooth, even with AGA.

Aaaaawesome

[runequester]

Btw, try DoomAttack instead of ADoom, it runs much faster.

I'll check it out. Last I tried, I ran into trouble with the stack size. Any short pointers on how to increase it?

[runequester]

Sorry if Im stating the obvious here, but Im not sure what else you could mean (must admit Im surprised there's anyone with an expanded amiga who's not painfully aware of how to increase stack size (I say painfully aware 'cos its pretty much essential to use regularly))....

anyway, to increase stack size simply change it in icon information. If there's no icon use a shell and simply type "stack 999999" (replace number with the size of stack you'd like, as a rough idea use about 64KB (65536) per 1 meg of executable size,.... there's no actual rule here, I only suggest these numbers to show that typically the bigger and more hardware intensive a program is the bigger the stack size you'll want. Also make sure you set the stack just before you launch the binary, and also launch binary from shell if stack is set from there (the stack wont apply for example if you set a stack from shell and then launch an icon).
I hope this is of use to you  

p.s. congrats on your purchase, Im living vicariously and even I find it exciting to hear about new classic hardware

Thanks Believe it or not, I haven't come across a need to mess with stack size much yet.

Was aware of how to do it from an icon, but not from shell, so thats good to know.

[runequester]

I see they are in stock again..   http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1005
Tempting.........

Runequester what does this line mean ? "The internally facing side of A1200 plastic trapdoor cover will have to be slightly modified if you intend to replace it once the accelerator is installed."

yeah, basically you'll have to chip down the trapdoor cover a bit. My old accelerator didn't allow the cover to be on either.