DoomMaster's whereabouts

[Karlos]

@Gaiyan

Welcome to the asylum, as someone used to say a lot here :-)

You don't have to be an amiga user to be a member :-D

Yeah TOS is pretty brutal looking but the later versions are better and some alternate desktops are very nice.

I gather there was a MultiTOS too, right? I seem to recall it was a preemptive multitasking kernel.

TOS loads up in a flash from chip if you have a disk in the drive. It doesn't have to be empty as long as it's not a bootable disk.

I often toyed with the idea with a bootable PCMCIA card disk to put workbench on, but never got around to it :-)

I have not used an Amiga ever in my life... I don't know how that has been possible. I'd love to give it a shot. I am envious at the game selection of AGA games compared to the Atari Falcon's.

I never used an atari, but for some time now I've had the urge to get a Falcon just to see what can be done on the machine. Also, those CT60 cards have got to be good :-D

No doubt AROS 68K could be ported to it, not to mention those PCI atari clones (Hades?) They looked pretty neat to me.

So what's happening with the old Atari platform these days?

I think there's no room these days for the old atari v amiga thing. We're equally beleagured in the rise to success of the PC ;-)

[Karlos]

@Doomy

One question. Why do you always refer to it as my "Pentium 4 PC"? As a PC owner myself, I'd be way too embarrased to admit owning one of Intel's worthless fan-assisted room heaters :-D

After all, as a professional, you can't be using one of those CRAP intel TOYS for your work, can you?

Go and buy yourself an Athlon64 based system - it'll "blow the doors off" any P4 system :-D

[Karlos]

BoingBoss wrote:

Karlos, Why should I upgrade to a newer processor when the one I have now works just fine?

Because the green processor pixie says so? :-D

You guys are never satisfied.  I on the otherhand am perfectly happy with what I have (just as soon as I down-grade to a Pentium III, 500 MHz processor).   :-D

Surely, you, the DoomMaster, you want to play Doom3, don't you? Feck, I know I do! It should be out sometime next month allegedly. It sure as hell won't enjoy a P3 500 from what I've read :-D

[Karlos]

@BoingBoss

General MIDI sucks ;-) Yamaha's XG level 2 MIDI totally "blows the doors off it", but is totally backwards compatible with it at the same time.

I have heard no soundcard that has the quite the clarity of a good quality tonegenerator when it comes to MIDI playback.

/me likes my rackmount.

[Karlos]

locutus wrote:
*looks at his Hardware Yamaha XG Synth PCI board*

i would care to differ about that second comment ;-))))))

Well, Yamaha XG based midi daughterboards do sound very good - much better for musical apps than any soundblaster derivative. I've used DB50XG and SW60 XG in the past and they do stand out for MIDI.

However, my MU100R (once a flagship product but now replaced by the even more powerful MU128) runs rings round both of them - due to the much larger wavetable rom & higher quality samples, 32-part (individually assignable through 2 seperate 16-channel inputs) playback, more advanced filters, greater number of dedicated DSP units, per part EQ etc. Even good old Paula audio sounds great fed through the A/D inputs and processed with the rest of the mix. OctaMED soundstudio is the perfect tool for me in this respect :-)

Lastly, the virtual Accoustic synthesis unit has to be heard to be believed ;-)