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- From: niels@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Niels Knoop)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: CV64 Confusion
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 13:58:05 GMT
- Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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- Mark P Allen (mpa@wvision.iig.com.au) wrote:
-
- > Ah, I see. I sit corrected. Is the CV64 unique in this, or do all the
- > gfx cards do this?
-
- Well, the Piccolo-SD64 can use 3 bytes/pixel in 24 bit, but this is not
- only slower with most drawing functions than using 4 bytes/pixel, but
- also requires using a software cursor due to a limitation of the graphics
- chip. For this reason, CyberGraphX uses 4 bytes/pixel on this board as
- well, and I prefer it this way.
-
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- | Ciao! /// Niels Knoop /// e-mail:
- niels@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de |
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