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[NuPraptor]

Hi there,

I don't think that the spirit will ever die. I only own two A500+ Systems at the moment, but I will get better Hardware as soon as possible. I had the best computertime of my life using the good ol' Amiga. Did anyone of you realize that NO x86-PC can ever emulate the Amiga-Hardware 1:1, no matter how fast it is ? It doesn't matter if you use some DualCoreExtremeIntelPentium-Thing with hundreds of thousands of MHz, you won't get the parallax scrolling of games like Turrican II+III or Lionheart running as smooth as on the Amiga on these machines, the damn VGA-Chipsets still do not support REAL smooth-scrolling of videomemory pixel by pixel. It's just beeing simulated by copying the whole video memory pixel by pixel (see DirectX-BitBlt-Function). Yeah right, there are some things like "Overlays"... forget about them, you won't get the same effect, or should I say atmosphere ? And what about the harddisks, disturbing the whole system by telling "Hi, I just want to load some things into memory so just stop everything... of course I'm a Ultra-DMA133 drive, but I still can only transfer small blocks of data into memory at a time, just to be compatible... even under Windows XP ... :madashell: "...

Nope, the system architecture of the Amiga will never be reached by any x86-PC, that's the reason I returned:

Fast 3D is not everything... SMOOTHNESS rulez...

Greez
    NuPraptor

[NuPraptor]

Hello there,

well, I haven't seen any PC (up to AMD64 FX-62) which is able to work real SMOOTH in a Windows- or Linux-Environment. Of course, they work very fast, but every x86 stucks for some milliseconds if certain things happen: Harddisk-DMA (Windows is swapping the kernel again), incoming LAN-Packets, while the connection is not 100% stable (just waiting for the next ping), output to the printer via parallelport (good ol' IRQ7). You can't tell me that your PC does not, it's simply the architecture of the southbridge (which is still running periphal-communication with 33/66 MHz) and the northbridge which can't be run at full speed on most of the systems and the kernel swapping to HDD of all O/S. Of course the delay is minimal and many people today do not realize the short stuck anymore, coz they simply are used to it.

I don't blame the PC for beeing a PC, I just tell you that on the Amiga (even with connected Hard-Drive) you do not have this stucks. That's true for an Apple with G3 800Mhz, too. Or the Sony PSX1 and PS2 (ok, consoles, I know...) but not the x86 !

Well, I didn't test a Tyan-Board with four CPUs and extended PCI-Ports and about 64 GByte of Ram so far... too expensive, but it looks very promising, it could make it... as SERVER-CLASS.

Greeeeeez
    NuPraptor