Most powerful PPC that can be put in an A1200?

[amiga-penn-wchester]

I think the issue is that when these cards were released and you shelled out the 800 and some dollars, the emerging WarpUP vs PowerUP thing only served to further fracture what was a small market for PPC ports.  This was disappointing to those of us who had shelled out for the new cards. Having one of those cards (I had a BlizzPPC 060/603 in a micronik-based tower) certainly was a blast, don't let anyone fool you, but I agree that today - other than to say "my amiga is 100% classic") - it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

It also depends on whether you are in the camp who likes the tight classic OS vs "let's make a modern amiga OS," which IMHO that ship has sailed.

If you ran a properly configured 3.1 with all the flashupdates, memory speed tweaks, rom imaging, etc, and you had decent patches for software to use the PPC, it was a nice system in 1999.  If I still had mine I wouldn't use it to run 3.5 and onward.

[amiga-penn-wchester]

Bah humbug!

I cruised the internet burning up the IRC chats and the www on my 50Mhz 060 Amiga until sometime in 2003.  My Amiga was only about half the speed of my Brother's 650Mhz Athlon Unreal Tournament Gaming Rig at rendering webpages and about 1/4 speed at rendering large .jpg images.  It was hilarious.

Heh, Yeah I seem to recall that around 2001/02 or so, I thought that my 060/50+PPC/240 was about as fast as a ~400mhz celeron/athlon/win98.  That's how it felt at least.  When it became cumbersome to work with after XP came out, that's when I sold the card,backplane, and 1200 mobo.

There's nothing wrong with AmigaOS, is and always was lean and mean - it's just that today, with the prices that some of those PPC cards are fetching, I mean, if you stick to 060 sans PPC, you aren't really missing anything.  I don't really regret buying one when they came out, but other than playing mp3s or an earlyish version of MAME, or imagedecoders, there wasn't much to make use of...

[amiga-penn-wchester]

True.

I have RTG in my A1200/060.  I don't have PPC but I have Mediator PCI slots + a 32-bit gfx card.  99% of the time my RTG is disabled and I just run my AGA with my flickerfixer (I have the super awesome 24-bit flickerfixer from the 1990s way before Indivision).

RTG is indespensable for Web browsing, DTP, etc.  But for oldskool gaming it causes incompatibilities.

WRT RTG: Without PicIV in at least my system, I couldn't make comparisons to 400+mhz PC type machines.  It is indispensible, but, that said - without AGA on my second monitor at the time, I would have sold my equipment earlier,.  The fact that you had both options, was what kept me on AmigaOS for so long.  With _only_ RTG, I'm not sure there's enough to keep me.  I'm sure there are many who will disagree with me on that.