| From: | Bo Simmons |
| Date: | 14 Aug 2000 at 15:16:45 |
| Subject: | Re: G3 & CGFX |
Hi Fredrik
> 1) Well.. first of all there is no G3/4 boarsa available to the Classic
> Amiga (not to the new one either?) and there will not be any this year.
When do you think there will be one, and btw: why the heck do Met@box use
G3, that pile of slow shit, G4... now that's better but not good enough...
A G4 macintosh ain't really fast, but maybe that's just because of the
weird OS..
> 2a) And WHEN/IF they will become reality Met@box has planned a gfx-card
> addon to their G3-card. But I think it will never see the light.
And prolly if ever comes out, cost like hell and be outdated... just like
the BVision, ooooooooooold chip already when they started planning it...
> b) ELbox will soon (15-16 August?)
Well, powerc has told me they will ship the Mediator, I bought, to me within
the two first weeks of August, which have just ended, so if they were right
(It's Amiga we're talking about, so I dont think they were right. I have
*never* seen a scedule that was followed for Amiga Hardware) I should get
it one of the next days...
> release their Mediator-PCI backplane
> and as soon as drivers appear( the CyberGraphX team is working together
> with ELbox to make drivers)
I think some really good drivers will come out very soon!
> you could use for example Voodoo3/5 and S3
> Virge3D cards. According to the Mediator page on www.vgr.com/pci a driver
> for S3 Vrige 4MB card allready excist and there will probably be a
> Permedia2(who would want that??:) ) driver to.
Nice.
> So your options are to wait for the G3 cards to appear (read. NEXT YEAR)
> and get a GFX-card that fits straight into it *or* you could keep your
> BPPC and buy the Mediator and get a Voodoo3 wich will outperform the BVPPC
> easy.
Voodoo 3 is slow and expensive... What about Voodoo 5, it rocks, but it cost
something like £500
I think a TNT2 thingie will be more worth the money. But I'm just guessing..
Greetz
Bo
*System Configuration:*
/Hardware:/ *Amiga 1200T* *603e+ 240MHz*, *68060 66MHz*, *BVision PPC GFX*,
64MB Fast-Ram
20GB IBM harddrive, 18GB Western Digital harddrive, 17" Panasonic screen,
Power Tower, 24x Toshiba CD-Rom
/Software:/ *Amiga OS 3.5*, Directory Opus Magellan 2, Visual Prefs,
/Internet:/ IBrowse, YAM 2, *3Mbit Cable connection* (set to 1Mbit)
PC: Compaq Armada Portable, ugly as hell, and runs wintel, god damn I hate
it.