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[News] Amiga2k show analysisANN.lu
Posted on 03-Apr-2000 19:33 GMT by Christian Kemp19 comments
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Corinna Cohn went to the Amiga2k and posted an extensive analysis on Moo Bunny. She describes the show itself, provides a rundown of the products on display, talks about Bill's speech and what she later talked with Bill and Fleecy. Read part 1, part 2 and part 3
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Amiga2k show analysis : Comment 5 of 19ANN.lu
Posted by Marco Ridoni on 02-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Dave):
It depends what you are speaking about. With the clock and bus speeds you can obtain on an Amiga (or on a Boxer), even with the fastest PPC board around, you can't even get near bus saturation for AGP or PCI, so it is basically the same.
Now AGP has gotten better, but the first tests when AGP appeared indicated that, on PCs, AGP didn't make much difference over PCI. And you have to consider that not everybody is playing Quake at 1024x768 24bpp. PCI is more than enough for ordinary 2D applications; and, I want to stress this again, no "current" Amiga can use that power. Also AGP has difficulties on some motherboards with non-Intel chipsets or CPUs (i.e. Athlon), because it is strictly linked to the Intel architecture. I'm not opting out AGP; it's probably the way to go in the future, but I think that it is a bit more complicated than saying "it's faster, it's better..." (no pun intended).
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