26 July 2024, 11:26 | #1 |
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Which OCS config to expect nowadays?
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I just want to know what to expect for OCS stuff nowadays. Do most people still use a vanilla A500/A500+ or is the Terrible Fire A534 accelerator card for the A500/A500+ common now? Last edited by dissident; 26 July 2024 at 11:53. |
26 July 2024, 14:27 | #2 |
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I have no stats, but I guess they're not that common. There are 3 different answers here, however:
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OCS rulez !
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29 July 2024, 18:10 | #5 |
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Hey, NP Dissident.
Even more detail (I wanted to keep the first answer to the point): Re: 1. If it's impossible to fit the game in the A500 specs, e.g. lots of world updates or calculations, the recent Z80 transcoded games, and other things, some are made for "some acceleration" with backwards compatibility, so that if you have it, you don't need an A1200 etc. And if it runs just a little bit over frame time sometimes (<30%), you can require only real fastmem, this can be enough and then A500 users without accelerator but with sidecar fastmem expansions, Kipper2K, A1000/A2000 with real fastmem, etc can run the game on OCS also. |
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Above 512 Chip + 512 Fast RAM and 7mhz 68000 is going to exclude the majority of gamers on real hardware. For serious stuff...go for the max as it scales down I guess to 020?
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What I would say however is if you target AGA, that does slim down the potential audience a bit. |
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06 August 2024, 13:39 | #9 |
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I think the only valid question for OCS config is :
ChipRAM : 0.5MB, 1MB, 2MB There are so many ultra cheap addons these days to add CPUs and FastRAM but with the 2MB 8375 Agnus going up in price so much (due to people building new Amiga motherboards) and populated MegAchip upgrades costing as much as A600/A1200 are there enough users with 2MB ChipRAM to target them? Do you really need more than 1MB ChipRAM? |
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