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- From: kjgudim (Kjell Gudim)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Cybervision 16 and 24 bit modes
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 13:37:37 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
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- Steve Koren wrote this in comp.sys.amiga.graphics:
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- >> use chunky and 256 color chunky is the same as 2 color planar.
- >Err, no. First, 256 color chunky is not the same as 2 color planar, and
- >second, even if it was,
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- I'm not saying I'm a HW guru (I'm not :) ), but I've heard this alot and
- the word is that 2 color planar and 256 color chunky are both i 1 bitplane.
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- I'll leave the explanation to the experts.
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- That's why Doom clones run sooo slooow on AGA.
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-
- >the difference is more attributable to the much
- >faster hardware on the card than to any particular organization of
- >graphics data.
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- Yes, the card is of course much faster than the AGA HW.<
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