| From: | Marion E. Wyatt |
| Date: | 17 Aug 2000 at 06:28:09 |
| Subject: | Re: G3 & CGFX |
On 15-Aug-00 at 08:58:11, Stian Str�m wrote these words of wisdom:
> hi,
>
>>> Yeah, I've seen it as well, but is 30 fps in Quake III at 1200xblahblah
>>> impressive? I think not, btw: the cpu was Celeron 350MHz i think...
>> If you think 30FPS at 1280x1024 is not impressive, you need to get your
>> head examined. :^} That kind of performance wasn't even possible until
>> just recently.
>
> Ehmm... as far as I know... A machine with an overclocked ASUS GeForce2
> card has reached over 100 fps in 1600x1200 Quake3... So 30FPS isn't so
> much nowadays... would be nice to reach 30 FPS in that resolution on my
> miggy, but I really really doubt that the old circuts can make it
> happen...
>
> Someone mentioned that the Voodoo3 was a lot faster than the Permedia2.
> and... hello? My 8MB Voodoo 1 (Rush) card was a lot faster than
> the Permedia2... It must be the slowest chip available... why they
> didn't use somtn like TNT2 that was available when they made the cards
> I don't understand... maybe it wouldn't help because of the slow
> bus speeds...
>
> My opinion is that AmigaOS should be ported to PC.
> The hardware isn't bad anymore... it was real crap some years ago,
> that's for sure, but it has improved some though.
That is what Amiga Inc are doing now in a round about way.
> Imagine having AmigaOS run on a 1GHz machine, with the best
> GFX card that money could buy. And there would even be upgrades
> available every month.
> AmigaOS is completly uniqe and easy to use (and it's even possible
> to fix stuff without having to install the whole OS all over again),
> and that combined with the best HW available would make one heck of
> a machine...
It certainly would.
> Well, I dunno... just freaking out... I need somtn new and faster than
> my 040 + 240MHz PPC. Seems that only a fraction of the PPC can be
> used because of context switching and stuff too...
An 060 would help :-)