SoftAGA......again

Mark J Cargill

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Nov 10, 1993, 7:22:24 AM11/10/93

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Hi all!

Sorry to drag the subject up again but.....

In the December edition of the British computing mag Amiga Computing
there is a PD library called EPIC (Uk pd house) advertising the
following software:

Quote without permission - sorry EPIC....

SOFT AGA
Emulates the Amiga 1200's AGA chipset.
Run glorious AGA workbench software.
Order code: [ ] C581

I thought that this software was a hoax??

Any thoughts??

Mark Cargill

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Nov 10, 1993, 7:54:12 PM11/10/93

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I've seen the SOFT AGA program... I don't know if it is a hoax
or not... If it is not a hoax, then it could be that it is
very tricky to set up... There are a lot of settings that
you have to do yourself.

Also, if wasn't clear if the Super Denise was required,
or just the ECS Agnus...

Jeffery Lay

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Nov 11, 1993, 4:17:03 AM11/11/93

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> I've seen the SOFT AGA program... I don't know if it is a hoax
> or not... If it is not a hoax, then it could be that it is
> very tricky to set up... There are a lot of settings that
> you have to do yourself.

I have heard reports that it is a Trojan which under certain conditions
erases your hard disk. This information *might* be false, but...

BE CAREFUL!!! RUN IT FROM A FLOPPY (HD OFF) UNTIL YOU ARE SURE!

I can see no way that *ANY* program could achieve what SoftAGA claims:
faster processing speed than a '1200, full AGA graphic specs, and all on
a stock A500+ or above. Doing all this *and* making your machine run
2-3 times as fast? No way.

It *is* concievable that a program could use a rapid flickering between
2 colours on the ECS machines to *simulate* an in-between shade, but this
wouldn't give 16 million distinct shades and would take up a lot of memory
(for the second screen image) and some CPU time. The speedup is simply
impossible. Or at least very, very improbable.

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J.P. Hillenburg

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Nov 11, 1993, 4:00:33 PM11/11/93

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In article <14038.93...@altair.herts.ac.uk> Jeffery Lay <J.A...@HERTFORDSHIRE.AC.UK> writes:
> > I've seen the SOFT AGA program... I don't know if it is a hoax
> > or not... If it is not a hoax, then it could be that it is
> > very tricky to set up... There are a lot of settings that
> > you have to do yourself.

Not only is the program a total hoax, but it's technically
impossible. No way you could accomplish what SoftAGA claims,
at least not without the BLAZEMONGER XIX HARDWARE ACCELERATOR.

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