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Re: apollo vs blizzard vs gvp
« on: May 17, 2006, 09:31:52 PM »
I think the Apollo 1220 had a full '020 instead of an EC '020 so it might speed thing up a little bit.  Really the main reason for buying an accelerator card for an A1200 is not the speed so much as the memory addressing.  8 Megs of fast doesn't go very far but 32-64 megs does.

At one time I had 32 megs in my Blizzard 1230 (50MHz w/ FPU) with SCSI kit and was able to run ADoom without accessing the stinkin' hard drive all of the time by renaming the WAD file and creating a soft link to the RAM disk and copying the WAD file to the RAM disk every time I wanted to play.  That speeded things up just enough to make them playable.

Memory is the issue more than speed.