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Offline Minuous

Re: Why accelerate an Amiga?
« on: March 16, 2007, 02:44:10 PM »
It's a silly question. Why would you accelerate any computer? To make it faster. So that applications, emulators etc. run faster and more smoothly.

It's like saying "Why accelerate an IBM-PC" or "Why accelerate a Macintosh".
 

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Re: Why accelerate an Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2007, 05:10:45 PM »
>Ok, here is a less silly question. "Why accelerate an Amiga if you aren't running any software that will take advantage of it, and you could use the money for something else?"

Well, you've basically answered your own question then. If you are just running ancient games on it then it is indeed rather pointless. I would have expected 3D games like Interceptor to become smoother when used on an accelerator but that doesn't seem to be the case (poorly coded?).
 

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Re: Why accelerate an Amiga?
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2007, 07:14:36 PM »
Actually I've noticed that many of the WHDLoad games don't seem to slow down properly, they have to be run at A500 speed.  Bomb Jack and Vixen spring immediately to mind. I will make a list if anyone is interested.

I might also go through the 3D games to try to find any that are actually smoother, as opposed to just faster, on an accelerator.
 

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Re: Why accelerate an Amiga?
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2007, 01:41:21 PM »
>If I speed up my Amiga and I have to "unspeed" it everytime I want to play a game, that seems like a waste of $$$$.

Yeah, it's funny how the WHDLoad patches say "this slave has been tested with an 060" etc...didn't they notice the game was running at 10x normal speed?
 

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Re: Why accelerate an Amiga?
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2007, 01:48:51 PM »
Many of them. Bomb Jack and Vixen spring to mind, but there are others too. Maybe I'm using old slaves or something.

I agree WHDLoad is great overall, I even registered it...