After a nice vacation it’s time for an other magazine. 
IC Run Issue 27, July/August 1987 is now added.
IC Run Issue 27 July/August 1987 (Danish)
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Tag Archives: amiga
68000 vs. 68010 processor benchmark
Someone in the Danish amiga community asked if the 68010 is faster than the 68000.
The short answer is No, and the long one Yes.
There is a slight improvement which you might be able to feel for CPU intensive work. But for gaming? naaa.. you might see a slight smoother scrolling for vector based games.
For the tests, I’ve created a bootable floppy. It has Sysinfo, WhichAmiga and AIBB on it. And I’ve chosen AIBB as benchmark program for this test.
I’ve used the same A500 for both tests, with a 512KB ram upgrade getting up to 1MB. The A500 ran Kickstart 1.3. Nothing other than switching out the 68000 with the 68010 has been done with the 2 A500 systems
You’ll see 4 systems in the images
A600-NF – This system comes with AIBB, and I can guess it’s a stock A600 (68000)
A500_1M – A500 with 512kB ram upgrade (68000@7MHz)
A500-010 – A500 with 512kB ram upgrade (68010@7MHz)
A1200-030 – A1200 Blizzard1230 MK IV 030@50MHz, 64MB ram
It is rumoured that there are quite a few applications that require a 68020 actually runs fine on the 68010 due to instructions needed are in the 68010. I haven’t seen any of these applications, but if you find any please report them here so I can add them to a list. If you run into issues using 68010, the Decigel software might help you out.
Otherwise I’ll let the numbers speak for themselves and make it up to you to decide if you want to upgrade your system.
You can download the diskette with the modules created here.
If you only want to preview the results without testing on your own system, you can go to the menu “Special” and activate “Preview mode”.
Det Nye Computer 69
The sites first issue of Det Nye Computer magazine.
This magazine has changed names on several occasions, either by merger with other magazines or due to contents change like C64/Amiga -> Amiga -> PC.
Amiga Comal Danish
Thanks to Uffe Jakobsen, Thomas Viborg and DDHF, the Danish Amiga Comal manual for the Amiga is now made available.
Amiga Maschinen Sprache – German Machine code
The German version of the Data Becker book – Amiga Maschinen sprache is now added to the site.
Deluxe Paint II Manual
This is far from any of my better manuals. Unfortunately the Manual was in a bad shape when It was donated to me (and you) the pages were crusty after having been in a damp environment, so the paper couldn’t touch the surface of the scanner properly. Here’s the result.
I’m not proud of it, but it’s better than nothing.
Shakespeare – The Page Integrator
Shakespeare The Page Integrator manual, which is a desktop publishing application, is now added to the site.
Maskinsprog
Yet an other Data Becker Book (I have several of these in Danish and German). This is the Assembler programming book, or machinecode if you will, this one is in danish, but I have a German one comming up.
New tutorials from Photon/Scoopex
Photon has finally added new assembler tutorials, parts 12 and 13.
Well ok, 12 was a week ago, but I only saw it now.
I’ve added them to the tutorials page.
https://www.retro-commodore.eu/category/tutorials/amiga-assembler/
Amiga Comal (UniComal) is now added
The Amiga Comal manual is now released.
There’s a small story with this one.
A collegue of mine at the museum, was collecting Comal stuff and asked me if Comal existed for the Amiga, just the week before this I aquired this software with manual, so I could gladly tell him that it did. I was at the same time scanning the Amiga Interface magazines, and a mere 20 min later of his question, I saw an article in one of the later magazines. Call that coincidence?
This manual comes in a box, with an insert of a binder, good quality stuff.
I’ve added the separator pages which is wider than the regular pages.