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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: EGS and CyberGraphX
- From: bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple)
- Message-ID: <bmaple.i63j@burner.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 96 04:16:14 MST
- Organization: The Back Burner BBS
-
- On Thu 25-Jan-1996 9:52p, Niels Knoop wrote:
-
- NK> Yes and no. You can indeed install them both and easily switch between
- NK> them, but the change is only made at the next reset. You can't have both
- NK> of them running at the same time (for example CyberGraphX for the WB NK>
- NK> emulation and non-Intution EGS screens at once, which would be nice
- NK> sometimes).
-
- Why is this so?
-
- I'm a Spectrum/EGS user and would like to change over to CyberGraphX when it
- becomes available. I don't necessarily have any sentimental feelings towards
- EGS other than it's screenblanker and the version of "Spectrapaint" I'm using.
-
- NK> I guess so. At least my own one does. :-) But I have not run EGS other
- NK> than for comparisons and tests since I registered CyberGraphX.
-
- When it goes commercial, does the registration carry over, or will it be a
- different version? And does anyone know about when it might be released?
-
- NK> Yes. No. CyberGraphX always uses chunky pixel mode with 1 byte per pixel,
- NK> while EGS does this only with 5 to 8 bit screens. It is much faster this
- NK> way, so I don't worry about this issue too much, but it would still be
- NK> nice to be able to choose, especially for Amigas with little memory.
-
- Hmmm. Doesn't it use the display card's memory?
-
- : Bob Maple : In the beginning, the Universe was created. :
- : bmaple@burner.com : This has made a lot of people very angry and :
- : http://rmii.com/~bobm : been widely regarded as a bad move. .........:
-