From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Wed Dec 10 21:13:17 2003 Subject: Re: [MiNT] This fight From: Petr Stehlik To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi In-Reply-To: <1071083501.13241.12.camel@pikachu.atari-source.com> References: <1071083501.13241.12.camel@pikachu.atari-source.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Message-Id: <1071086993.2696.28.camel@joy.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:09:53 +0100 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by ns1.avonet.cz id VAA21327 Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: joy@sophics.cz Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by prinz.cs.uni-magdeburg.de id hBAKCw025040 V St, 10. 12. 2003 v 20:11, Mark Duckworth píše: > times to get past internal compiler errors. No blame assigned, just > saying hardware is getting old, atari hardware has always been dodgy, > isn't it nice to have something else? This is a very valid point, IMHO. I myself have bought all possible extensions to my Falcon - Afterburner040, NOVA gfx card, network card, DSP clock kit, bus/DSP/VIDEL accelerator and built it all in a bigtower. I spent a real fortune on that and when the motherboard died I bought another one and built it again. I am not saying this to impress you or something - I just want to explain that I myself have a solid real-Atari-HW roots (going back to 520STM in 1989) and that it took me long time to start believing in the ARAnyM. Unfortunately the SuperFalcon machine I built above was never rock stable and I used to have various problems including bombs in the middle of programming session, before I had a chance to save my source code. And I know I am not alone - overclocked hardware (as most Falcons and some TTs are) tends to fail when you don't expect it. That's why you may consider ARAnyM as a safe alternative - it runs stable (as long as the underlying stuff runs stable - luckily overclocking GHz CPUs is usually not necessary). > Calm down people... you'll lose your hair! I have to upload my current photo on my web page. You'll see why I argue for ARAnyM... Yes, I have nothing to loose :))))))) Petr