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- From: jpeacock@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Jason Peacock)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Paula chip and Amiga audio
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 08:05:13 GMT
- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
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- Clay Hellman (hellmanc@spots.ab.ca) wrote:
- : AGA Amigas might be able to, in some screenmodes -- but ECS maxes out
- : at 28khz using DMA. Of course using the processor, you can achieve
- : over 50khz.
- :
- : You might wonder why the screenmode, of all things, is a related
- : factor on AGA machines. This is because the Amiga's DMA is made to
- : fetch two bytes of sound data (per voice) per scanline (maximum). In
- : NTSC, you have about 240 DMA-usable scanlines. So, 240 x 2 x
- : 60frames/sec comes out to 28800, so thats where you get your 28khz
- : limit. In many AGA screenmodes, however, there are more scanlines,
- : thus the audio hardware still can fetch 2 bytes per scanline, so more
- : scanlines = higher capable sample playback rate.
-
- ECS is just as capable in the scanline department as AGA. Your
- explanation also works for ECS Amigas. Put an ECS Amiga into
- Productivity video mode and you can push your Amiga all the way to
- 44 Khz and 56 Khz playback rates.
-
- : L8r
-
- : Clay.
-
- Jason Peacock
-