Best Amiga gaming combo: CD32 + TF360?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ค. 2024
- The Amiga is known for its great gaming heritage. But what is the best Amiga for gaming in the 2020s? I check out the CD32 with some help from a Terrible Fire 360 accelerator and see if it is the best combo for gaming.
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The TF360 is a thing of beauty. So much utility for the little machine.
Great video! I love my CD32. You are correct about the 68060LC being less expensive, but it really cripples the 68060. Games are fairly incompatible with the 68060 - much more so than the 68030 - so the 68060 really shines on the Amiga for Demos and professional software, which requires an FPU to really shine. The 68060 power is wasted on the LC version for the Amiga.
Since the CD32 is missing so many critical ports and expansion capabilities, running professional software on it and using it as a full blown computer is fairly expensive and difficult.
To sum it up, I think the TF 68030 card is a better choice for the CD32 for the increased game compatibility, and save the 68060 for an A1200 or A3000/4000 where it's power can really be used.
At least that's my theory.
The 060 incompatibilities are like any other Amiga so really only start to creep in when you are running original software directly from floppy or CD-ROM, this probably affects the CD32 less than the A1200 because the CD32 doesn't have a floppy drive, also the TF360 can be disabled for playing original CD32 titles, unlike the TF330 which has a disable bug present on most machines. This really sucks as it means you have to physically remove the expansion card if you have a troublesome game, and to make matters worse some older firmwares on TF330 break NVRAM compatibly. The TF360 really shines as a on demand 'Turbo' WHDload machine, with 060 you get almost the whole Amiga games library depending on processor. I own both the TF330 and TF360 and feel at least WHDload the TF360 may actually edge ahead of the TF330 in terms of compatibility, but it's certainly no worse.
The downside of the TF360 which I don't think was mentioned in this video is the CDROM drive can't presently be used on the most recent firmware. It's really subjective from person to person whats best, for me having the working disable jumper and much faster performance makes the TF360 a better product and bang for buck.
It was still sold in the usa as i had 1 they were sold at commodore amiga computer shops which those were the ones that came from Canada how we have ntsc models
Those NTSC versions really are fairly uncommon!
Brilliant video =D
Over half an hour on the CD32 and didn't mention the fact it plays games from CD or even open the lid to show it! lol I've only got one of the basic fast ram boards for my riser card might get an 030 one day but i have 060's in my A4000 and an A1200 for when I need more power.
The LC version isn't the best for building a render farm, or to do a quake lan party, but for everything else it's quite a nice CPU 👍🏻
Wing commander doesn't run well on 060?
It runs too fast, however there are special versions of Wing commander that the speed can be adjusted .
22:10 that could have been true had they released it with some fast ram
Would it have made much difference? Incidentally if you have an FVM card installed in your CD32 and run the same video, it automatically plays it in full screen.
@@uberdude2555 it would run twice as fast it would be quite a speed bump, not to say that it could help a lot regarding games
why is the TF360 unobtainium - now several years into its existence? This amounts to teasing your audience - mercillessly...lol
??Have you asked the usual TF accelerator builders? I didn't have any difficulty getting one