Back to amiga...

[ravnen]

Hi all.

Well. In 2000 a lot of things happend in my life.
Among other things, my thrustworthy A4k died (with smoke and everything).
It had been a wonderfull computer. Mounted in an aopen tower, with a 060@50Mhz accellerator with scsii, 96 megs of memory, picasso IV with soundcard, tvtunercard and networkcard addon, 40 gigs of harddrive space (scsii), internal zip drive and cdburner...

Well, that was it for me, I sold off the remains and started life as a Linux user on the x86 platform, and a year ago, when I wanted a laptop, I went Mac.

I was visiting my parents not long ago, and found a lot of old amiga disc (a lot of old games, and a few old amos games I've made, and never completed ofcourse), and even a pcmcia squirrel scsi card.
One thing led to another, and I ended up here, again.
And after browsing this site I found myself at amigakit.com and with a placed order for a a1200...

So I guess Im back in the game...

The only difference is that my "Amiga will never die, and will take over the marked" spirit is "non existing" now, but that does not prevent my for having a great time with old games, and the joy of seeing old hardware perform...

[amigakit]

Welcome :-)

[amigakit]

Welcome and thanks :-)

[stopthegop]

Welcome back.  Lots of "returnees" lately, myself included.  

[Amiduffer]

ravnen wrote:
Hi all.

So I guess Im back in the game...

The only difference is that my "Amiga will never die, and will take over the marked" spirit is "non existing" now, but that does not prevent my for having a great time with old games, and the joy of seeing old hardware perform...

And yet another one returns to the fold.  :lol:  Welcome. I've heard of magnetic personalities, but magnetic computers?

[sdyates]

Yes, welcome back. I have been back from ten years and have built a nice collection of amigas. The last things I need in my colleciton is an 060 card or ppc card.

I have had more fun rebuilding my amigas in the past several months than I have had with computers in the past several years.

Magnetic for sure.

Oh, and AmigaKit is excellent. They offer great communicaiton, speedy service and good products <-- they are my first stop if I need anything

[ravnen]

Well, since I was used to the picasso IV card I guess going to AGA is a pain.

I remember a friend of mine had a ppc card with a gfx card as an addon. Not that it would fit in the original case?!

But is there any way to get a gfx upgrade without an pci extention?
Or is this the only way to go?

[Damion]

If you can find a Blizzard PPC card, it takes a graphics add-on that can be used in a desktop case, with some modifications for extra cooling. Aside from that, you'd need a PCI expansion/tower. Problem with the first option is that it's no longer manufactured, difficult to find, very expensive and might be a flaky setup.



BTW, welcome :pint:

[ravnen]

As I imagined.


How about ppc cpu expantion? Is there some way to add this nowdays, thru the pci ?

[Damion]

No, not yet, anyhow. There have been a couple of products "in the works", but nothing available ATM.

Have you checked out WinUAE? You can set up a fast, fully functional "virtual" amiga on your PC, compatibile with pretty much all amiga software out there. (Also emulates CyberGraphX.)

[ravnen]

Whats the fun with emulation?

Getting old hardware do things it's creators never chould imagine is what I like

[Damion]

Whoops, correction,

(Also emulates CyberGraphX.)

I meant to say Picasso96...

 Whats the fun with emulation?

Getting old hardware do things it's creators never chould imagine is what I like

I had a tricked out desktop 1200 at one time, and it WAS fun to browse the net, emulate 68k Macs and play Quake at  decent FPS"s with AGA... but an emulated amiga with roughly the same speed as a 1 GHz 68040 is also kinda fun to play with. For myself, it's a both/and as opposed to an either/or kinda thing.

[ravnen]

well, since i have a macbook for serious (and dull?) computer stuff, this is just for the fun of it.

[Damion]

And that's what it's all about :pint:

[NuPraptor]

Hi there,

I don't think that the spirit will ever die. I only own two A500+ Systems at the moment, but I will get better Hardware as soon as possible. I had the best computertime of my life using the good ol' Amiga. Did anyone of you realize that NO x86-PC can ever emulate the Amiga-Hardware 1:1, no matter how fast it is ? It doesn't matter if you use some DualCoreExtremeIntelPentium-Thing with hundreds of thousands of MHz, you won't get the parallax scrolling of games like Turrican II+III or Lionheart running as smooth as on the Amiga on these machines, the damn VGA-Chipsets still do not support REAL smooth-scrolling of videomemory pixel by pixel. It's just beeing simulated by copying the whole video memory pixel by pixel (see DirectX-BitBlt-Function). Yeah right, there are some things like "Overlays"... forget about them, you won't get the same effect, or should I say atmosphere ? And what about the harddisks, disturbing the whole system by telling "Hi, I just want to load some things into memory so just stop everything... of course I'm a Ultra-DMA133 drive, but I still can only transfer small blocks of data into memory at a time, just to be compatible... even under Windows XP ... :madashell: "...

Nope, the system architecture of the Amiga will never be reached by any x86-PC, that's the reason I returned:

Fast 3D is not everything... SMOOTHNESS rulez...

Greez
    NuPraptor