Author: Shiuming Lai (cache-ink1-cro-hsi.cableinet.co.uk)
Date: 12-01-2002 02:13
The TT's 32 MHz CPU clock was a last minute kludge - the system bus is still at 16 MHz. There are other reasons why it is faster than the Falcon in some areas though. The Falcon does have a blitter but it's so crippled it may as well not have one (TT is the machine with no blitter). I recommend seeing how the CT60 performs before rushing into buying an AB40 (8 year old technology now), the prototype is actually running and very close to release. Its design addresses the AB40's shortcomings (some of which are common to all Falcon accelerators thus far) and will pack a bigger punch due to a much higher bandwidth design. The AB40 route is a rash decision at this point in time. It won't disappear, so why not give the new technology a chance. For one, the AB40's Falcon bus through-connector is just that, an extension of the 16-bit bus which chokes the Falcon. CT60 has a full 32-bit expansion bus with 060 protocol. "Do the Math".
The Falcon's graphics modes are not all available on one type of monitor. You've got VGA (high-res, bandwidth-sucking) and RGB (meaning low-res, fast, lotsa colour - hence games and demos favour this)
