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Offline Karlos

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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #44 from previous page: January 30, 2011, 01:41:43 AM »
Quote from: Cammy;610740
There is a 020+ and a 020+FPU version of IBrowse, and I used to use the FPU version with my 8MB RAM card with FPU. I'm not sure exactly what it's used for, perhaps the image remapping or dithering. In any case, I could definitely tell the difference in speed when using the FPU version instead of the plain 020 version on my 8MB Amiga. I could multitask better, less slowdown.


Interesting. Actually, on reflection, I guess some of the layout calculations could use it, though I had imagined they'd use fixed point.
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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #45 on: January 30, 2011, 02:12:27 PM »
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Hey Ed, I got into Amigas because the CD32 was my first games console and my desire to play more games on it made me expand it with an SX32 and eventually branch out into using other Amigas and Aros.


Well, good for you. I think most of us got into Amiga for games (and graphics). I certainly did. But I'm still here because I like what the OS represents: an intelligently designed system; simple and easy to use.

But I'm still surprised someone your age is interested in it. SX32 or not. :)
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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #46 on: January 30, 2011, 03:25:00 PM »
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But I'm still surprised someone your age is interested in it. SX32 or not. :)
Well, I don't know exactly how old Cammy is, but I'm only as old as the Amiga, myself - I didn't get into it until years later when I was reading about it and thought it sounded interesting. There's more of us second-generation retrocomputing buffs than you'd think :)
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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #47 on: January 30, 2011, 09:14:08 PM »
Cammy says she was also born around the same time, so that places you and Cammy at about the same age, but if you follow the links that she provided and watch the videos of her, you (I do anyway) get the impression she's a lot younger than that. Maybe half your age.

Nonetheless, it's still nice to have the interest. I'm glad some people still appreciate what the Amiga once was. :)
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