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#5601 |
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Join Date: Jan 2023
Location: UK
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Okay, well I've just bought an (untested) Bigfoot M1 for $80 (listed at $120) + $8 postage (Total £70) from fleabay. He wouldn't deliver to the UK so it's going to a place in Florida. Will have to see what that MyUS.com charges to send it onwards to me here in the UK.
Then we have to see if it works. Where can I find PC software so I plug it into my PC to see if it works in general, then start the process of testing on the A4000? [ Bigfoot Networks LLR Killer NIC M1 PCI Card (MN: BFN120001-3 3)] |
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#5602 |
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There's a few at $100 right now.
IDK the Apocalypse is great but the common version only has 128MB. So if you can upgrade that to 256MB or 512MB(which might leave between 256MB-384MB available), it's really just about as good as a Ragnarok with some overclocking. But that's a lot of if's. If we had a lot of stuff supporting Altivec it would be a no-contest winner-with a bit of overclocking in almost all cases. |
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#5603 |
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The M1 only has 64MB making it only run the old stuff.
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#5604 |
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It's a starting point for me, and a decent enough entry price so I'm okay with that. My Cyberstorm mkIII has a decent amount of memory in it, so presumably that outweighs the lower amount on the M1? Or do programs have to directly access the PPC's memory to do stuff? |
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Yes they do. The PPC can use 68k memory at about ChipRAM speed. Furthermore, if an individual PPC program is going to say I need to allocate oh 78MB of PCI RAM, it's not going to just go ahead and try to run on the 68k side, it'll just crash. Similarly if a 68k program says I need about 78MB of RAM, maybe if a free chunk of that size is on the PCI side and it's available to the OS it'll try to use it, and run at about ChipRAM speed, terribly. |
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