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- From: mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com (Matt Harrell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Using up all Chip RAM.
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 20:00:24 GMT
- Organization: Sojourn Systems Ltd.
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- John Torset (johnt4@iceonline.com) wrote:
-
- : Why use a 7-bitplane Workbench. Get MagicWB2.0 and do nicely with 3- or 4-
- : bitplanes depending on if you want to use MagicCopper or not. It looks
- : realy nice. ;) You will save about 350 to 550 Kb of Chipram depending on your
- : choice. (Compared to 1.3 Mb)
-
- Yes, but then any images displayed on the Workbench screen (like in
- Mosaic) look like shit. I do have MagicWB2.0 (registered). 128
- colors is the minimum that I've found that still yields acceptable
- results. I've never experienced or heard of this problem occuring on
- a "PC" with a video card (i.e., a PC using up all of its video RAM). I
- realize that "chip RAM" and "video RAM" aren't quite the same thing,
- but....
-
-
- : One of the reasons that Amosaic use an awefull amount of Chipram is because it
- : use MUI for it's GUI. Try Aweb 1.0 (no MUI), It's on Aminet and are just
- : as good as AMosaic, and thankfully useing a lot less Chipram.
-
- I will give it a try. I've heard a few people in the newsgroups
- praising AWeb.
-
- : I hope that will help.
-
- Me too!
-
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- Matt Harrell Amiga 1200 running AmigaOS3.0
- Lansing, MI U.S.A. CSA 12 Gauge 030/882RC@50MHz/SCSI
- mharrell@sojourn.com 2MB chip/18MB fast RAM
- 240MB IDE hard disk
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