What processor for OctaMED?

[Darth_X]

I used to have a Cyberstorm PPC/060 processor card in my A1200T.

OctaMED runs very nicely on the 060 (with a minimum of 4MB RAM, I had at least 16MB), and was even nicer with a Toccata 16bit audio card. I never owned a Toccata but borrowed a friends for a while.. what a difference the upgrade to 16bit makes! :-D

OctaMED was coded for the 68000 series processors (up to 060s), so it wouldn't gain much performance on PPC unless the PPC was running a really good 060 emulator/JIT.

What kind of Amiga do you have? A1200?

[Darth_X]

Cyberus wrote:
Just in response to some of the above posts...
I wanted to use OctaMED because that's what I used when I was younger to play around with.
I've used Cubase (I started an audio course at Salford Uni and we had to use it as part of the course) and whilst it may be more 'powerful' I just LIKE OctaMED, pure and simple.
Once again, the X is better than Y argument is coming out. But what if I happen to prefer Y?

Thanks for all the replies

Of course the high end Squencers such as Cubase and so on are going to be more powerful.. but with OctaMED its the tracker music *spreadsheet-like* interface that makes it possible to start up and punch in a quick n dirty music track in no time! That's the power of it!