"24 channel 16-bit... really? Mind telling me how? I kept running out of channels in Protracker and faintly remember trying out Oktalyzer (?) and OctaMED (double-?), but they sounded awful even at 6 channels IIRC. Just not the same punch and clarity."
the you had a crappy non expanded A500:P
i can use on my 68040/25mhz Amiga more channels in a tracker to use at same time then i need!
everything is nicely on 16 bit 44.1 Khz rendered when i output to a wave file.
paula can give you 14bit @56Khz sound as a max setting.
sb128 sounds crappy compared to paula, so did all the early sb cards sound next to paula.
"That was one nice way to get PC users to shut up, playing their 24 channel 16-bit XM music on a bog-standard A500...."
if he could do that on an A500 i would be impressed! coz it ain't possible!
A500 has same paula sound chip wich ALL classic Amiga's have!
and 7.14 Mhz with 512kb or 1 MEG is a bit to little to play 16 bit 24 channel xm mods
Amiga you say ? mwuhahahaaa Amiga rulez!!!!
nice configs you got there!
specially your A500 is accellerated very nice you do not seem A500's like that very often!
my config's are
A4000 in mirage pro tower,cyberstorm PPC with 060@60Mhz,cvision ppc,mediator, 40GB 10K RPM seagte SCSI uw3,128MB ram @60ns,IDE DVD rom/burner,
x-surf,varIO,USB (zorro 3 card),voodoo 3 3000 PCI and pinaccle pc TV PRO
A1200 in elbox power tower with Blizz PPC on 040@25 Mhz+603e 240 Mhz,128 MB ram,Bvision PPC,60 GB ide drive (7200 rpm),cd rom,Zorro IV board+mediator ZORRO IV+x-surf
both machines equipped with OS 3.9 and ALL the hacks&patches we like so much;)
The OCS chipset of A1000& and A500 was able to display 16 bit gfx from a palette of 4092 colors at pal resolution, it also had 4 channel, 8 or 14 bit digital sound up to a freq of 56KHz!
i still use paula (Amiga's original audio chip) to this day coz it still gives good sound even for todays standards and has very good HW filters.
heck i'm typing this on my A400O tower wich leaves my 2Ghz athlon PC in the DUST!!! execpt on raw cpu power ofcourse;-)
it is also possible to add pci cards (my A4000 has a stunning 6 PCI 2.1 compatible+6 zorro 3 slots wich makes a whopping nr of 12!! 32 bit expansion slots all capable of busmastering and FULL DMA) to the classic Amiga for the A1200 and A3000+4000 models.
hail this fantastic machine wich makes computing fun!
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"24 channel 16-bit... really? Mind telling me how? I kept running out of channels in Protracker and faintly remember trying out Oktalyzer (?) and OctaMED (double-?), but they sounded awful even at 6 channels IIRC. Just not the same punch and clarity." the you had a crappy non expanded A500 :P
i can use on my 68040/25mhz Amiga more channels in a tracker to use at same time then i need!
everything is nicely on 16 bit 44.1 Khz rendered when i output to a wave file.
paula can give you 14bit @56Khz sound as a max setting.
sb128 sounds crappy compared to paula, so did all the early sb cards sound next to paula.
"That was one nice way to get PC users to shut up, playing their 24 channel 16-bit XM music on a bog-standard A500...."
if he could do that on an A500 i would be impressed! coz it ain't possible!
A500 has same paula sound chip wich ALL classic Amiga's have!
and 7.14 Mhz with 512kb or 1 MEG is a bit to little to play 16 bit 24 channel xm mods
Amiga you say ? mwuhahahaaa Amiga rulez!!!! nice configs you got there! specially your A500 is accellerated very nice you do not seem A500's like that very often! my config's are A4000 in mirage pro tower,cyberstorm PPC with 060@60Mhz,cvision ppc,mediator, 40GB 10K RPM seagte SCSI uw3,128MB ram @60ns,IDE DVD rom/burner, x-surf,varIO,USB (zorro 3 card),voodoo 3 3000 PCI and pinaccle pc TV PRO A1200 in elbox power tower with Blizz PPC on 040@25 Mhz+603e 240 Mhz,128 MB ram,Bvision PPC,60 GB ide drive (7200 rpm),cd rom,Zorro IV board+mediator ZORRO IV+x-surf both machines equipped with OS 3.9 and ALL the hacks&patches we like so much ;)
The OCS chipset of A1000& and A500 was able to display 16 bit gfx from a palette of 4092 colors at pal resolution, it also had 4 channel, 8 or 14 bit digital sound up to a freq of 56KHz! i still use paula (Amiga's original audio chip) to this day coz it still gives good sound even for todays standards and has very good HW filters. heck i'm typing this on my A400O tower wich leaves my 2Ghz athlon PC in the DUST!!! execpt on raw cpu power ofcourse ;-)
it is also possible to add pci cards (my A4000 has a stunning 6 PCI 2.1 compatible+6 zorro 3 slots wich makes a whopping nr of 12!! 32 bit expansion slots all capable of busmastering and FULL DMA) to the classic Amiga for the A1200 and A3000+4000 models.
hail this fantastic machine wich makes computing fun!