> machine every other day of the week. They were nearly all naff. This
> may be one of the reasons ClickBoom got so narked at the piracy of
> Quake (I bought mine, before you ask!!), quite apart from the obvious
> loss of revenue, they did actually try very hard to make a very good
> port rewritten, almost, from the ground up. What thanks did they get?
The only just sold 2000 copies, afaik. Same with Napalm. This is scandalous
:(
> I'm afraid here I become skeptical. I have heard much about emulation
> of old Amiga software lately, first on the PPC and then on the NG. It
> is one of the points that has sounded most like hype and the least
> credible of all. Emulation takes a LOT of cpu power. Multimedia
Not really. My 333Mhz Celeron notebook is pretty reasonable emulating an
Amiga under UAE (I use this at home..), I'm quite happy. A 550Mhz P-III must
be more than useful.
> The result is that you'll be very lucky to get a 200MHzPPC to do much
> better than a slow '040 (despite claims of '060 speeds) and even the
Yes, but:
a) 70%+ of the (UK) Amiga public have an 030 ;)
b) the new machine should be a *lot* (twice as fast?) faster than a 200Mhz
604 PPC card, according to Amiga. Say they use a 400Mhz G4 card (for
arguments sake), this would be fast 040 speeds, or more...which would be
faster than what most Amiga users have now ;)
> itself. (Rather like a PC at the moment - Word 7 runs just as slowly
> on a P3 as Word4 did on a 486..)
it does? Not here. I wouldn't class it as 'slow'. Ok Windows might be
bloated and about 30% slower than a Linux machine, on the same processor,
running the same/similar software, but a 550Mhz P-III ain't 'slow' ;)
Chris.
Active Technologies - Chris Wiles [Managing Director]
http://www.active-net.co.uk
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