[Web] AmigaONE Power System Review | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Aug-2003 12:40 GMT by Mike Bouma | 59 comments View flat View list |
Dave Pitcher (aka Miffy) has reviewed Eyetech's AmigaONE Power System, based on the A1G4-XE motherboard at the AmigaWorld.net community portal.
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Posted by Jim Forbes-Ritte (AGAfaster) on 27-Aug-2003 08:01 GMT | In reply to Comment 45 (Darrin): Darrin,
I'm with Hooligan/DCS and Hans-Jörg on this - I loved my speccy(s), and me ZX81.
>> Spectrum won for me. Sure, the C64 had more hardware in there, but did that
>> matter for the games? Noooo. OTOH the 4 Mhz Z80 vs. the <1Mhz 6502 made the
>> difference when playing Elite and a bunch of other games...
errmm - nitpick time, but the Z80A in the spectrum was run at 3.5MHz. half the speed of the Pixel clock in the ULA. (the 128K was a shade faster at 3.55MHz)
> But what about the awful Speccy sound!!! Arrrggghhh, my ears!!! ;-)
You obviously never heard the stuff that Greg (I think) Follin came up with - I believe he made 3 channel tunes out of that there buzzer !
> I never played Elite on the Spectrum. I used to play it on a BBC Micro B in
> school and then spend hours on it on the C64 at home. I still give the Amiga
> version a whirl now and then. Frontier never managed to create the "thrill"
> of the original :-(
I did. many hours of fun, but I never got above 'Competent'. I only ever received one 'right on commander' message.
I believe the Beeb had the best version (anyone remember the Execrable Electron version ?! :-x ), but you are absolutely right about Frontier !
>> Spectrum was a cool machine, one that I could still build hardware for ;-)
The ultimate Hardware-hack machine !
> Start by building it a decent keyboard ;-)
but that was half the charm ! and besides you forgot about the Spectrum+, and the 128K ! (that had a proper 3 channel sound chip !) |
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Comment 57 | IForgotMyPasswordBecauseItWasLongAndComplicated | | 27-Aug-2003 08:48 GMT |
Comment 58 | StillForgottenMyPassword | | 27-Aug-2003 08:50 GMT |
Comment 59 | Jim Forbes-Ritte (AGAfaster) | | 27-Aug-2003 12:06 GMT |
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