Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2019-05-18, 14:13

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by BushLin

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While an upgraded A1200/A4000 fulfills many 90s fantasies, if I was buying an Amiga today to play games it'd be the A500 with just a 512KB RAM upgrade and a virtual floppy which takes an SD card. Just like old PC titles run poorly on newer hardware the developers didn't foresee, many great Amiga …

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Re: Problems with IDE controller.

Posted on 2019-05-17, 21:36

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by BushLin

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If your cable has a blue connector, plug that end into the controller/motherboard. If it has two drive connections, plug the black/far end of the cable to your drive.

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2019-05-16, 20:27

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by BushLin

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good lead, so here we go: https://archive.org/details/Amiga_Format_Issue_002_1989-07_Future_Publishing_GB/page/n13 Hardware premiere review from July 1989, Official CBM UK LTD price listed 445 pounds, x 1.6 = >$700 Can we now agree the official, Commodore blessed price was in fact an insane >$700? …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2019-05-16, 18:43

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by BushLin

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There is no way this is true... can you show some catalogue/magazine scans or direct us to price lists that can verify these PC prices? DMC and CompuTOP both list this price/configuration, december 1989 https://books.google.pl/books?id=5CmkZ3THZtwC&lpg=PA1&pg=PT427#v=onepage&q&f=false Commodore …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2019-05-16, 12:04

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by BushLin

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Indeed, sorry for the meme but seeing an Amiga vs PC war these days just invites:

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Re: Good value Win98 Graphic Card

Posted on 2019-05-16, 11:34

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by BushLin

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Also, sometimes it's about more than just grunt though, the fx line added 8x anti-aliasing and quality video outputs were more common around that time.

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2019-05-16, 11:23

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by BushLin

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...If you have followed this discussion, then you will know that the Amiga was an overall better machine for the money, untill some 1992 to 1993. And even with the introduction of Win95, the Amiga were still overall better. Plug and Play was laughable, compared to autoconfigure, untill somewere …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2019-05-16, 05:14

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by BushLin

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If Grzyb has a point, I'm struggling to understand what it is. Can someone enlighten me? The point is simple: We all agree that Amiga computers were good for games. But some people claim they were also good for other purposes, especially compared with PC - and this I'm not buying, that's all. I'm …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2019-05-16, 00:45

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by BushLin

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Indeed. I can't speak for others but for most of the 80's, my programs loaded from audio cassette and the Amiga 500 disk drive was a massive upgrade. We weren't poor, these things were just expensive. Even in 1990 a 20MB hard drive was the same cost as a new Amiga. I picked up a nice HDD expansion a …

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Re: ram upgrade didnt work... why?

Posted on 2019-05-15, 19:08

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by BushLin

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Generic RAM testing advise; test one module at a time in each slot until you find your fault.

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Re: What is the best Thin Client for Windows 98 (SE)

Posted on 2019-05-15, 09:16

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by BushLin

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@BushLin: unfortunately there is no Socket 370 Mobile or Low Power CPU. The Pentium III i have, has a TDP of 35 Watts. The Geode NX 1500 has only 9Watt. @appiah4: only the NeoWare has Legacy SB compatibility. The HP T5710 sound card could have, but the Bios is missing the option to enable Legacy …

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Re: What is the best Thin Client for Windows 98 (SE)

Posted on 2019-05-15, 08:11

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by BushLin

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The Compaq iPaq desktop is very much a feature packed Pentium 3 system stuffed into a thin client form factor although the video is from the Intel chipset. https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c00344568

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2019-05-15, 02:46

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by BushLin

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I was impressed by how people talked about the Amiga here. I had the impression that the Amiga was a “pre-historic” computer stuck in the early 80s by how people were talking about. Until I saw your video. It was 1990? Dude! That’s some serious graphics for a 1990 game. I never had an Amiga, but …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2019-05-15, 00:35

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by BushLin

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The way I was blown away by the Amiga in the 80s can't be put into words. For anyone who doesn't get it, take a listen to what 1985 hardware could sound like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8FYh49E-Q0 This is an unremarkable game, given away free in 1990; attached to the cover of (IIRC) the 3rd …

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Re: "Dial up" to computer in home network?

Posted on 2019-05-15, 00:16

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by BushLin

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Am I the only one wondering why you don't just use a regular LAN adapter? Is it purely to hear the dial up negotiation sounds and/or experience dial-up speeds?

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Re: Fast storage for windows 98?

Posted on 2019-05-14, 23:07

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by BushLin

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Those results are basically perfect. I think 122mb/s is about the upper limit of SATA I. Also, didn't know that the 865 chipset will take pentium dual cores! That really seems like the ideal setup for windows 98. Not many 865 boards will happily accept 45nm socket 775 CPUs but the Asrock 775i65 has …

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Re: Good value Win98 Graphic Card

Posted on 2019-05-14, 22:04

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by BushLin

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I would avoid anything newer than an fx5900, the 45.23 Geforce drivers are the gold standard and that came out just before the release of the fx5500 and fx5900zt; those examples are an .inf edit away but there's no benefit from trying to make the GF6* line work. Edit: This page is very useful, …

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Re: Fast storage for windows 98?

Posted on 2019-05-14, 21:55

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by BushLin

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There are motherboards running the Intel 865 chipset with SATA ports which natively support Windows 98. Let me know your benchmark of choice and I can give you some results. I use this benchmark from Phil's website: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/hdd-benchmarks.html I am curious to see what you …

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Re: Good value Win98 Graphic Card

Posted on 2019-05-14, 18:22

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by BushLin

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I would avoid anything newer than an fx5900, the 45.23 Geforce drivers are the gold standard and that came out just before the release of the fx5500 and fx5900zt; those examples are an .inf edit away but there's no benefit from trying to make the GF6* line work. Edit: This page is very useful, …

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Re: Fast storage for windows 98?

Posted on 2019-05-14, 18:03

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by BushLin

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There are motherboards running the Intel 865 chipset with SATA ports which natively support Windows 98. Let me know your benchmark of choice and I can give you some results.

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