A3000T???
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Well, I AM new to the Amiga/Toaster world (after 9 years of MessDos <g>),
so forgive me if I ask a basic question…
What's the A3000T? I've heard some folk call it a "tower" version of the
A3000… is this like "tower" in the PC world? i.e. BIG case with lotsa
SCSI drive mounting bays and a good sized power supply?? I've also heard
you can put the Toaser in it w/o having to do any cabinet surgery <g>…
How 'bout performance of the A3000T on Toaster CPU-intensive S/W versus
that of an A2000 with a 030/50Mhz/4+4MB acellerator (e.g. Great Valley
Products)???
If my guess is somewhat correct, the A3000 (WITHOUT the cost of an
acellerator board) might run in the same price neighborhood as an A2000
WITH an accellerator board, plus some kind of additional cabinetry for
additional SCSI drives…. But IS IT WORTH the extra bucks, if any?
I know, I know, I could probably ask this stuff of any dealer, but I'd like
to know what you folks in the "real world" think!
Yea, Ney, out of my freakin' mind??
Your comments are needed (on the CPUs and hopefully not my mind <G>) and
they are greatly appreciated!
Regards,
Luke
Correct on the Tower thing… The 3000T and 3000 are the same, using a
25mhz '030. the main difference is the 2Mb of "chip" ram on the 3000
motherboard.. this can also be added to a 2000… The pricing is strange
and volatile, check carefully.
What advantage do you get from the 2 meg agnus? Ive had Toaster slices
running with adpro, dpaint, pixel 3d all at the same time no problem on a
16 meg fast, 1 meg chip ram system. Is there s/w that requires a 2 meg
agnus?
– via Whap!
John, the two meg Agnus (aka OBESE Agnus) is required if you are going to
use Broadcast Ttler's enhanced resolution mode (35ns resolution, same as
Toaster's CG). Since Toaster's genlock is optimized for use with it's
native composite digital graphics and performs with less than average
results with other Amiga SW, you wouldn't really want to install the obese
agnus in your Toaster system until Newtek writes new code to take advantage
of it. In my setup however, there are two Amigas, one "downstream" from the
Toaster operating as a CG/Graphics workstation with it's own genlock. It is
this second Amiga which I plan to upgrade to the Obese Agnus, and perhaps a
new Denise, so as to get the optimum resolution from BT2's enhanced CG and
supply more chip ram for Dpaint anims.
Frank
ToasterPaint really loves the extra chip RAM…
What can you do with more chip ram in Toaster Paint ?? Kinda curious…
– via Whap!
Try having a swap screen and two full screen brushes.. often TPaint will
refuse to grab a brush taht's too big, and flash the screen instead. don't
you hate when that happens!
I have a 3000 (non-tower), and was having trouble with swap brushes when I
had 2MB CHIP & 4MB FAST RAM.
Now that I am running 8MB of FAST RAM, I have no problems. Maybe I was
runnning so low on RAM before that some of my CHIP RAM was being used for
code and was thus unavailable for graphics.
Keep On Toastin'
Erik Flom
Luke,
The 3000T is the tower configuration, very similar to towers in the
DOS world, with an 030 processor and lots of slots. I've heard the toaster
should fit fine in the "T", but don't know of anyone with first hand
experience of this. Advantages? Hmmm, the major advantage with the 3000
series is probably the 32bit bus, but at this point in hardware evolution I
don't think there's too much out there taking advantage of it. Eventualy
there should be a significant advantage to owning a 3000 (I do) but
currently it's probably about even.
-David