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- From: jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl (Jaco Schoonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: chipmem and gfx cards?
- Date: 26 Feb 1996 02:02:22 +0200
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- Lee Huggett (Lee@burst.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : > Does an A2000 need to be upgraded to 2megs of chipmem to make a graphics
- : > card viable (thinking mainly of PicassoII or Retina Z2)?
-
- : > wavegirl
-
-
- : ermm... no
-
- : a graphics card will use its own memory to display the graphics so it will
- : leave you with more chip memory anyway
-
- I remember that I read in a review that the Retina software needed 1Mb chip
- ram, so it might be a problem of you only have 512k
-
- --
- Jaco Schoonen
- (jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl)
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