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- From: hendis@aix1.danadata.dk (Henrik Dissing)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: chipmem and gfx cards?
- Date: 26 Feb 96 19:14:15 +0100
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- On 25-Feb-96 10:33:59, singh wrote:
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- > Does an A2000 need to be upgraded to 2megs of chipmem to make a graphics
- > card viable (thinking mainly of PicassoII or Retina Z2)?
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- No, on the contrary. With a Picasso, and I suppose with a Retina as well,
- you will need very little CHIP memory for graphics, since the screen
- bitmaps are copied between the Picasso's memory and FAST memory.
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- To test this I right now have these 4 screens open:
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- Workbench 1024x768x3
- THOR 1024x768x3
- Mand2000 1024x768x8
- TV-Paint Jr. 800x600x24
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- I have an A2000 with 1 MB CHIP, and I still have 864,344 bytes left,
- although the above screens take up 2,816,256 bytes, according to my
- pocket calculator.
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