Author: Anders Eriksson (kryten.dhs.nu)
Date: 12-01-2002 14:45
If you cannot tell the difference with NVDI on/off then certianly you are blind as a bat. It speeds up a few times in general.
Maybe you should try NOT to run the Falcon in the highest possible screenmode ? Remember that your Falcon has no TT-RAM so all extra resolution and colourdepth sinks the overall speed down a fair bit.
Falcon does 640x480x8bit with VGA and 640x400x16bit with RGB from the bog standard desktop. I don't see where there are any lies there? Add a freeware program and it will expand the VGA resolutions (speeding up the graphics chip clock from 25 to 32MHz) and it will move the screen borders on RGB to gain higher resolution.
Now also try to download FalcAMP (http://falcamp.atari.org/) and run an MP3. Then try to do the same on your lightning fast TT.
After that, download ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/atari/Falcon/Graphics/jpegd.zip (install the prg in your auto and acc in your boot drive root). Then go to http://www.freefoto.com/ and download some jpeg pictures. Now try to load some pics with the ACC (you have to reboot before the auto prg and acc is loaded though!). Then load whatever software you have on the TT and display the same pics. I hope you won't fall asleep while the TT is working.
Then you could try some dsp fractals, harddisk recorders with Realtime effects, graphics software (Apex for instance), ACE Synthesizer (http://nb.atari.org/) etc. etc. And do it on your TT. Ooops, there isn't even any software like that.
And why not run some games to compare the both. Hum wait a minute.. No games for the TT. Doh. And to really check what the machiens can do, load some demos. But oups again, no demos (except a couple) on TT. What a bummer.
In a few words: The machines power cannot be measured how fast MagiC moves its windows.
