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- From: niels@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Niels Knoop)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: EGS and CyberGraphX
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 21:52:36 GMT
- Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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- Stefano Cairoli (Cacio@cacios.locebbs.chnet.ch) wrote:
-
- > I'm a happy SD64 user, currently I use the EGS system but I'm thinking
- > about buying the new CyberGraphX drivers for my card
-
- Good idea.
-
- > * is it possible to have installed both the EGS and the Cyber software?
-
- Yes and no. You can indeed install them both and easily switch between them,
- but the change is only made at the next reset. You can't have both of them
- running at the same time (for example CyberGraphX for the WB emulation and
- non-Intution EGS screens at once, which would be nice sometimes).
-
- > I know that there is an AREXX script that switch between the EGS and the
- > CyberGraphX environnement, but does it works?
-
- I guess so. At least my own one does. :-) But I have not run EGS other than
- for comparisons and tests since I registered CyberGraphX.
-
- > * using EGS, if I open a 2/3/4/5.. bitplanes screen, EGS does use only the
- > necessary memory. It seems that CyberGraphX always open an 8bit screen,
- > even if I need only a 3bit one. Is this correct or the newest Cyber release
- > has fixed that?
-
- Yes. No. CyberGraphX always uses chunky pixel mode with 1 byte per pixel,
- while EGS does this only with 5 to 8 bit screens. It is much faster this
- way, so I don't worry about this issue too much, but it would still be
- nice to be able to choose, especially for Amigas with little memory.
-
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- | Ciao! /// Niels Knoop /// e-mail:
- niels@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de |
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