The Z3660 all-in-one accelerator. Part 2

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In part 2, I examine the RTG, networking and audio capabilities of the card - and give my overall take on the Z3660.
sHaNsHe (Double H Tech) has created a new all-in-one accelerator for the A3000 and A4000 Amigas, which has some neat tricks up its sleeve. Check out Part 1 first for an introduction to the card.
sHaNsHe's github page is here: github.com/shanshe/Z3660/tree...

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22 июл 2024

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@imalebowski 3 месяца назад

It looks really promising and blurs the lines between emulation and actual hardware to a point I just can't see which side of the line I'd be on! I think the people behind this have put in a lot of effort and it really shows. I still think I'm happy with my BFG9060 and Pimiga on a NUC for extreme performance. Great video as always!

@MrLukealbanese 24 дня назад

Wrangler, could you please do an AmiTCP setup for everyone to see please? It's a right royal pain and guidance would be very helpful indeed 😊

@kjellmesch8060 3 месяца назад

I'm building one and putting it in my A3000, that is broken at the moment. It will be an adventure for sure 🙂

@AdamPolkosnik 3 месяца назад

Good stuff!

@wrangleramiga896 3 месяца назад

Thanks!

@cullmaster7361 3 месяца назад

Thanks Wrangler 👍🏻 For the RTG side, can Warp3D be used? What are your impressions in relation using this over a Mediator or Prometheus setup with a Voodoo or Radeon RTG setup? Any known issues or conflicts with Z3 cards, such as SCSI? Cheers 🍻

@wrangleramiga896 3 месяца назад

No Warp3D on the Z3660... yet! Shanshe is working on something though. Difficult to compare the Z3660 with the Mediator/Prometheus as they have more flexibility via PCI slots but the advantage of the Z3660 is that it is all-in-one. The only conflicts I'm aware of are with add-ons with DMA (eg A3000 SCSI, A4091) but again - watch this space!

@semicuriosity257 Месяц назад

What about Doom benchmarks with 68060 @ 100Mhz or soft68K and RTG?

3 месяца назад

I have a question regarding picasso96, I am using the old 2.0 version, but I noticed there are some new 3.x versions commercially available. Do you know if it's worth paying for this (since in the end we're not running actual Picasso cards but just emulated stuff) ? I'm not sure and the vendor does not clearly make it an obvious answer.

@wrangleramiga896 3 месяца назад

I'm not sure I can answer whether P96 v3+ is worth paying for but it would support the continued development of the software and therefore bug fixes/new features eg multi-monitor support. Picasso96 supports all sorts of gfx cards, not just Picasso cards and v3+ supports some cards not covered by v2. I guess the question really is, is there a good reason not to pay to upgrade?

3 месяца назад

@@wrangleramiga896 that seems to be a reasonable reason to do it of course, but I also would love to see if it's useful on a technical level, especially on a emulated platform :-) thanks

@PurdueJHanna Месяц назад

Is there any place where you can buy a pre-built Z3660?

@wrangleramiga896 Месяц назад

Yes. Sellers I know of (there may be others) are Kavanoz on the Z3660 Discord that's linked from Shanshe's github page (right at the bottom): github.com/shanshe/Z3660/tree/main, torsti76 was selling them for those on a1k.org but may have temporarily stopped as I write this, and 8 bit dreams has a sale thread on Amibay.

@valenrn8657 3 месяца назад

Quake's 21.34 fps is close to Pentium 90. BFG 9060's 17.53 fps is close to Pentium Overdrive 83 Mhz which is below Pentium 75's results

@dennisboon6651 3 месяца назад

what's a bipmap? :-D

@dennisboon6651 3 месяца назад

90 degrees HDMI also probably works?

@wrangleramiga896 3 месяца назад

In an A4000, yes. In an A3000, no...

@liquidmandotcom 3 месяца назад

Circles should be round, not ovals.

@AdamPolkosnik 3 месяца назад

It could be the monitor's scaling or the capture device's behavior

@liquidmandotcom 3 месяца назад

No the pixel aspect ratio is off in the sysprefs screen settings. You would know this if you had yourself an AMIGA 'back in the day'.@@AdamPolkosnik

@AdamPolkosnik 3 месяца назад

@@liquidmandotcomRight, because I did

@TemalCageman 2 месяца назад

@@liquidmandotcom I have a screen that can't switch between 16:9 / 4:3 automatically... it support both modes, but you have to tell the screen manually if you want it display in 4:3 or in 16:9... so I run my AmigaONE X5000 in 1920x1080 and all is fine and dandy, but if I launch a game, lets say Quake that opens up an 800x600 screen, the monitor will then strech the image to fit the screen, unless I manually tell it to use the 4:3 aspect ratio instead.