opinions on ppc options ..please

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i.those who have a ppc card on the 1200 aga only  an or  a sam  machine  with  0s4  what is it like  ..is it worth the money?? ..the time? opinions  please ..

Maxed out SAM 440 ~700Mhz, 1G RAM and Radeon 9250 is fairly usable machine, However, its one step away from SAM 460 Lite that is 1Ghz, has faster RAM and is able to use RadeonHD. Either SAM 460 Lite or used Pegasos II with MorphOS and OS 4 would be my recommendations for many reasons.

SAM below 700Mhz is slow for Timberwolf and AmiCygnix and you do want productivity?

Classic option would be to wait for Natami or Ultimate PPC
http://ultimateppc.nl/

But no one knows when they will appear ...

Remember that OS 4.2 will come sooner or later and RadeonHD will be the next big thing and only SAM 460 and X1000 can do it And maybe Peg2 with AGP RadeonHD, Radeons HD exist for older PCI slot but are rare to find and extremnely overpriced. MOre OS acell should also goi to gfx card.

To be honest, best option is to save, save, save money and buy X1000,
Compared to SAM 460 similar system its less then 2x expensive, but offers 2 cores, complete system, Xena, fastest RAM and HDD speed, 10xUSB and when board will be supported 3 spare slots. And SAM 440 and 460 are industrial boards, picky, hard to expand with little space on it

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Furthermore, compatible 68K applications that expect the real native hardware to be present run a lot better under 4.1 on a genuine classic machine than they do when emulating everything in UAE on faster OS4 machines if comparisons between my 4.1 A1200 (603e 240MHz) and 4.1 A1 XE (G4 800MHz) are anything to go by. That will probably change as UAE on OS4 matures though.

This is big advantage of OS 4.1 Classic users. We badly need some software reimplementation of AGA (since we have CPU emulation) or some "redirection sofrware" like NallePuh used to be (redirects Paula to AHI, there is CIA emulaton also, we need just the AGA gfx chip emulated to RTG)