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What can an A1200 do
« on: August 01, 2006, 02:16:56 PM »
HI

I have an amiga 1200 which i have fitted  a 4gig laptop HD other than that its the basic A1200,
now i`m just asking really other than playning my old games on it is there anything else i can i have seen somwhere that
i can play videos and stuff like that on it but i would be very surprised if they where any good. Really all i would like to know
is, if there is anything i can do to workbench to make it look any better without the need to buy some more ram which i dont mind but i dont use my miggy much
but i would like to have some fun with it thanx for any help you can give me.

Thanx
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Re: What can an A1200 do
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2006, 04:01:38 PM »
There's the whole magicworkbench or Newicons thing, which can be added to your Amiga to enhance the look. The subject is discussed rather eloquently here:

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Re: What can an A1200 do
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2006, 04:30:08 PM »
With only the standard 2MB of RAM, your options are pretty limited in terms of eye candy. As already said, MagicWB is probably your best option.

As far as video is concerned, short of native Amiga animations, you're out of luck. MPEG, let alone Divx, is too much for a stock A1200.

Consider getting an accelerator as soon as possible.
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Re: What can an A1200 do
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2006, 04:59:57 PM »
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As far as video is concerned, short of native Amiga animations, you're out of luck. MPEG, let alone Divx, is too much for a stock A1200.

Consider getting an accelerator as soon as possible.


Well, DivX is too much even for the fastest PPC-cards available for the A1200 (if we are talking about... uhm... let's say 'normal' sized movies with good quality).

Please correct me if I am wrong here, which I might be since I  don't own any PPC-accelerator for the A1200 and never extensively experimented with any.
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Re: What can an A1200 do
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2006, 05:17:49 PM »
..I am also curious about PPC / Divx thing.. well, I don`t know, but think that it should be possible to play normal sized  Divx movie on Amiga, I have seen some divx plugins for ppc version of Frogger somewhere.. some older PDAs with PCC also played Divx.. well, I may be wrong, so some more info from pcc users would be great..  
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Re: What can an A1200 do
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2006, 05:23:36 PM »
Forget eye candy on a stock 1200. Having a large harddrive can even be a bigger strain on your memory resources but I guess it will work.

What can it do? A stock 1200 is to be considered as a year 1992 computer. So it can do 1992 computer things. That is it. Everything it can do more is mainly because an amiga is a very good computer.

So look around for old software on floppy. It will most likely run on your 1200. It will do nothing more unless you enhance it to greater levels. It will never be a 2006 computer. Get a PC if you want that. Retro computing isn't about playing DivX.
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Re: What can an A1200 do
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2006, 05:33:23 PM »
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Re: What can an A1200 do
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2006, 05:48:23 PM »
I don't know the PPC situation with Divx, but I got about 2FPS out of MooVId on my 060 with no audio. MPEG-1 works fine however.
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Re: What can an A1200 do
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2006, 08:54:23 PM »
Thank you so much for all your help was just asking i`m big into retro gameing and i had amiga way back when i think it was an A500+ with witht he extra 1meg board which i still have, and loads of disks o the good old days was only ask about what it can do really cus i know there is a big cult following for the amiga. thanx again for your help


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Re: What can an A1200 do
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2006, 11:11:15 PM »
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Matt_H wrote:
I don't know the PPC situation with Divx, but I got about 2FPS out of MooVId on my 060 with no audio. MPEG-1 works fine however.


It's quite strange since MooVid author states that "MooVId can play 240x180 truecolor AVI/MOV at 15FPS (without skipping) in perfect (!) colors on 030/50 AGA."

http://www.dfmk.hu/~torokl/MooVId.html

So on a 060 it should fly.
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Re: What can an A1200 do
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2006, 11:37:39 PM »
I can say something about moovid and divx, i bought moovid last weekend, and i made some tests with moovid and divx (v3, v4, v5) and mp4 (v1, v2, v3). With my Blizzard PPC 060/240mhz, i played a 320x240 25fps divx and mp4 video, i got 24.60 to 24.90 fps using overlay options of my S3 Virge gfxboard, i got a smooth video playback, but on some scenes with more movement i got small jumps, it seems that frames skipped are from scenes with a lot of movement where requires more cpu process. I got better results with divx, mp4 have more jumps.
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Re: What can an A1200 do
« Reply #11 on: August 02, 2006, 12:47:52 AM »
@ Egg-Chen

The problem is that AVI/MOV is no longer descriptive enough. Even though a file may have the extension .avi or .mov, the actual format of the file can be completely different, thanks to the zillion different codecs in use these days. So while an .avi file that dates from when that text was written does fly on an 060, a typical one that was encoded yesterday will choke.

It would be much more helpful if the files had a .dvx extension - then we'd actually know what sort of file we're dealing with!
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Re: What can an A1200 do
« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2006, 01:45:56 AM »
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Matt_H wrote:
I don't know the PPC situation with Divx, but I got about 2FPS out of MooVId on my 060 with no audio. MPEG-1 works fine however.


Re: MPEG1: How fine is "fine" !? And what other hardware do you need?

Presumably, expecting an '060 A1200 to play an MPEG1 file at VCD resolution (352x288) is asking too much for AGA screenmodes? I'm guessing it'd need a graphics card of some sort?

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