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- From: floh@mkmk.in-chemnitz.de (Andre Weissflog)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Merlin and Cybergraphics
- Message-ID: <PE9cy*WG0@mkmk.in-chemnitz.de>
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 00:15:47 CET
- Reply-To: floh@mkmk.in-chemnitz.de
- References: <490.6636T1328T119@mediacom.it>
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- In article <490.6636T1328T119@mediacom.it>, Silvio Massina writes:
-
- > Hi,
- >
- > I've heard about a new version of ProBench (ProBench '96) wich has
- > Cybergraphics support. Anyone has tryed it and can give me some more infos?
- > Does it give a great improvement over ProBench 2.2?
- >
- I have ordered it last week, but didn't receive it yet.
- All I can say from reading user responses in their support mailbox
- is that those users who received it were more or less
- "pleased". The Cybergraphics stuff seems to work without
- problems (special CGX software runs, and truecolor screens
- seem to work without probs too).
-
- Problems with AmiWin X11 pack, since the AmiWin CGX driver uses
- undocumented CGX functions.
-
- GLOOM Deluxe runs.
-
- The other big improvement is memory management in the card's RAM, so
- the blitter can be used much more often then before.
- Displayable bitmaps are generally hold in video ram whenever possible,
- only when this is filled up, they are held in FastRAM. This
- reportedly gives about 500 screen switched per second at
- high resolutions, and overall performance is said to be about
- 3 times faster then even with ProBench 2.2. And now 4MB
- Merlins finally make sense :-)))
-
- > I've also heard about another driver (cybergraphics compatible) for Merlin,
- > but I don't know who sells it (not ProDev), anyone could tell me something
- > more?
- >
- As far as I can say, there is no real Cybergraphics driver for
- the Merlin, only for its ZII predecessor Domino.
-
- > (please answer me in e-mail, I don't read alwais this conference)
- >
- Ooops... too late :-)
-
- -Floh.
-
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