20 Jul
2001
20 Jul
'01
8:59 p.m.
Ah, now I see,
you're running a A4000, which should mean a 68040 processor.
Well, there is more than a little difference in speed between a A3000/25 and
A4000/25 since I've got a 68030 and you've got a 68040. I'd love a faster
CPU, but I can't justify it for a machine that I quite honestly have no real
use for. I just like it :^)
The A4000 has gotr Commodore's pathetic 68040 board, though, so any third-
party board should fare much better, particularly the 40 MHz ones. Not much, I'm afraid. That's why I use a lot
of buffering, so that I might at
least read some email, but surfing the net at the same time is asking for
trouble on an 040/25.
I suspected as much, even with a nice lightwieght OS with great multitasking
there is only so much you can do with a 68040/25.
The Catweasel
board (at least when I bought mine had the software to read
Amiga, PC, C-64, and maybe Macintosh floppies. It was advertised as being
able to read a lot more different formats. The problem is, it doesn't (or
at least didn't) have any software to do that.
That's odd, according to the review I read it could read Amiga, PC and ST
formats, as well as transferring C64 disks into images. Windows is equally pathetic. Of course, the PC floppy
system is pathetic in
itself. It doesn't even detect disk insertion.
I'm not surprised, I remember when I was running OS/2 on my 486/33, a top of
the line system at the time with a massive 8MB RAM and 2 200MB HD's! Anyway
I ran V1.3 - V2.1 on it, and I think it was V2.0 that so blew me away, I
could be formating both a 3.5" and a 5.25" floppy while downloading
something, AND doing something else! Now that was awsome! Of course these
days I realize that's the kind of performance that should be expected from a
computer, even if it is only a desktop PC.
Zane