| [News] Eyetech clarify similarities and differences... | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 03-Nov-2000 15:55 GMT by Christian Kemp | 34 comments
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Eyetech Group Ltd have released a new
press release, with a
factual clarification of similarities and differences between the AmigaOne 1200 &
4000, the Predator, GRex and Mediator boards.
It has to be said that this is probably highly controversial material,
and that interested customers should also seek third party advice, especially
as far as Eyetech's opinion on the Mediator is concerned.
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| Posted by Eagle One on 04-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 28 (ehaines):
: Yes I agree, but in the Mac, usually everything is write 100%
: "system-friendly", so things are easier :)
: So, I bet that on the Amiga some old game or demo that you love will
: fail to run on the 68k emul :)
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>Those are the same old games and demos that break on things like AGA
>machines and any OS version more recent than 1.3. Nothing to do with
>68K emulation.
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No, I can run these things in my A1200/060 with some help from degraders, TUDE, Relokick 1.3 and so on :)
My point is that these solutions are way too "hacky" to work frawlessly in an emul.
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>emulator. After all, access to custom chips etc. is still there, so
>it's not like UAE where the whole computer has to be emulated. (But
>even there, UAE has a fairly high success rate last I heard.)
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I have UAE in my x86 box, it works 'ok' most of the time, but strangely it seems to
like most the usual adf game booting in Rom1.3 mode, than hacked whdload games booting
in full Rom3.1/HD/OS3.1/AGA/gfx card mode...I'm not saying that it don't run the stuff,
it does a fairly decent job, but there's always some glitches here and there: missing song in stage n,
corrupted background in end level, and so on...:-\
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That's why I always prefer the "real thing", even with some hacks to ensure compatibility :)
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: But seriously, what else reason Elbox has to let your old
: 68k accelerator together in a full PCI/SharkPPC G3 system? :)
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>Good question. Marketing? If/when these things actually get released
>we'll see how compatible they are...until then it's just speculation.
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Erm...I think they're giving more options to the customer... like the supposed "dual working" of both
the G3 in SharkPPC and the 68k in your old accelerator (I've seen Elbox commenting this in theis latest
press release - correct if I'm wrong :)
Huge speculations aside, of course they should keep the old accelerator in the pass-thru or else the
current Mediator users will have 4 nice PCI slots in a not-so-nice 020/2mb ChipRAM config :) |
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