Comments on: Messing around with Vistapro 4.0

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 07:48:24 +0000

In reply to Noth. NT MIPS, you mean...

By: Noth

Noth — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 02:18:41 +0000

I used Vista on an A1200/030 with 1 meg fastram / 2 meg chip ram. It took about 45 mins to render a 640×256 image I think, which wasn’t so bad for visualisation. Animation was beyond the reach of this config though…

Also porting to SGI was a better solution at the time, not NT 🙂

By: Chris M.

Chris M. — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 00:00:05 +0000

In reply to neozeed. ...and going full circle, DeskStation Technology was the OEM involved in the project. No surprise given that both companies were based out of Kansas.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 02:02:09 +0000

In reply to Chris M.. I'd never heard of that one. Apparently it was made in limited numbers. The real solution was porting to NT. I'd like to think 16 cores should be plenty fast for 1997

By: Chris M.

Chris M. — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 22:49:35 +0000

Don’t know about a plain old 68k, but Lightwave 3D rendering on a 33Mhz 68040 equipped Amiga 4000 wasn’t all that fast either. NewTek sold a MIPS(?) based external rendering box called the Toaster Screamer to speed things up.