Quake II on Amiga A1200 PPC

Here is Quake II running on my Amiga A1200.

Resolution is 640x480x16.

My Amiga specs are A1200T Blizzard 603+ PPC 175mhz 68060 50mhz 256mb RAM.OS3.9 BB1+2, Mediator, Voodoo 3 P96. Indivision 1200 AGA SD/FF

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[ImperialProductions]

Technically not the Amiga doing this, it's all the Voodoo3's work...

[ddniUK]

@ImperialProductions

I disagree, the 3dfx card is completely driven by the Amiga.

[ImperialProductions]

@ddniUK Doesn't mean the Amiga is doing the work, the Voodoo card is, as is the PPC. That 1200 is no more an Amiga than my gaming PC is a Mac. Everything that made it an amiga has been replaced.

[ddniUK]

@ImperialProductions

I still disagree, Amiga OS 3.9 is entirely driven by the 68k 68060 cpu, the whole system depends on the native Amiga hardware to run. The PPC needs the 68k CPU to implement the WarpUP drivers.

I agree that this is not an out of the box A1200. But much to the annoyance of some Amiga purists progress is progress, this is simply a demonstration of that.

[ddniUK]

@nikomo0

LOL it is a TimeDemo! I aint playing... ;)

[ddniUK]

@Pubec71

Not for THE Amiga!!!!

[glennglog22]

i wounder if half-life 1 can run this?

[KarpowSCX]

@ImperialProductions Ok. Let's take A1200 motherboard out of the case and leave all the rest in. Does the machine still work? No... :)

[DarioNeodi]

@ddniUK Pratically, the Amiga is slowing down the PPC and the Voodoo 3 card. The system as a whole uses much more the accelerator cards with modern CPU and GPU than the original AGA chipset and Motorola CPU, so it's not really an Amiga anymore. With a Sam440ep and a compatible external video card you'll get better performance for your Amiga OS 4: you should upgrade to that. That's progress, not attaching on a vintage Amiga (that should preserved) a whole new unrelated architecture.

[ddniUK]

@alxxz

The Amiga 1200 in when installed in a tower case, the A4000 Tower, A4000 Desktop, A3000 Tower and A3000 Desktop all support the mediator PCI bridge cards. Google "Elbox mediator" for more info.

[alxxz]

@ddniUK

Very interesting indeed! Is this possible on a basic A1200, A500, A600, etc… using a PCI bridge or only for the AGA A4000 & A1200T? Oh and what about on the A2000? And driver support? I still have my A1200, wouldn’t mind trying something like this on it.

[ddniUK]

@madcapoperator

No not at all the Native Amiga OS is driving this hardware in the same way as any other modern day system accesses PCI or PCIe cards.