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Originally Posted by Thomas Richter
Why? Which applications really need a FPU?
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Back in the day I was one of the earliest Blizzard 1260 buyers, (ordered from Germany through mail order as soon as it was released, I didnt wanna wait for it to be released in Sweden). I did it to **dramatically decrease** render times in Imagine 3d. (about 500%) speed increase over a 50Mhz 030 + 50 Mhz 68882 FPU.
These days most people wouldnt torture themselves by rendering on Amiga although there are still some hardcore Lightwave fans out there who do it.
So why FPU?
As other mentioned, lots of 060 demos expect a FPU.
If you dont care about demos…?
About Quake.. When we get to those mid 90s PC release, they are available on other platforms and generally run much better even on a vintage Pentium 133. Bit If you still wanna explore those ports on Amiga, you probably want FPU.
But mainly, for me anyway, its nice to know that with a full 060 i will be able to run pretty much all software available for Amiga as opposed to having a really fast 060 Amiga which cant run all high end software.
External FPU could in theory help, but it would never be the same as a full 060.