Another Amiga question

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Fri Jul 20 20:59:53 2001

> >Ah, now I see, you're running a A4000, which should mean a 68040 processor.
> >Well, there is more than a little difference in speed between a A3000/25 and
> >A4000/25 since I've got a 68030 and you've got a 68040. I'd love a faster
> >CPU, but I can't justify it for a machine that I quite honestly have no real
> >use for. I just like it :^)
>
> The A4000 has gotr Commodore's pathetic 68040 board, though, so any third-
> party board should fare much better, particularly the 40 MHz ones.

The fact still remains that it's considerably faster than what I'm running
with, and I've considered buying one for my A3000, but didn't want to deal
with the heat problems the Commodore board would cause.

> Not much, I'm afraid. That's why I use a lot of buffering, so that I might at
> least read some email, but surfing the net at the same time is asking for
> trouble on an 040/25.

I suspected as much, even with a nice lightwieght OS with great multitasking
there is only so much you can do with a 68040/25.

> >The Catweasel board (at least when I bought mine had the software to read
> >Amiga, PC, C-64, and maybe Macintosh floppies. It was advertised as being
> >able to read a lot more different formats. The problem is, it doesn't (or
> >at least didn't) have any software to do that.
>
> That's odd, according to the review I read it could read Amiga, PC and ST
> formats, as well as transferring C64 disks into images.

Well, ST format and PC format are the same so yes, it could do all those,
but the manufacturers website claimed it could also to Apple II and several
other formats. Not without software they didn't provide it can't! The cool
thing is it can do more than C64 images, it can access the files on the C64
disks.

> Windows is equally pathetic. Of course, the PC floppy system is pathetic in
> itself. It doesn't even detect disk insertion.

I'm not surprised, I remember when I was running OS/2 on my 486/33, a top of
the line system at the time with a massive 8MB RAM and 2 200MB HD's! Anyway
I ran V1.3 - V2.1 on it, and I think it was V2.0 that so blew me away, I
could be formating both a 3.5" and a 5.25" floppy while downloading
something, AND doing something else! Now that was awsome! Of course these
days I realize that's the kind of performance that should be expected from a
computer, even if it is only a desktop PC.

                        Zane
Received on Fri Jul 20 2001 - 20:59:53 BST