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- From: neilo@m140.aone.net.au (Neil O'Rourke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: SVGA chipset question
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:50:57 +1000
- Message-ID: <neilo-3103961150570001@d56-1.cpe.maroochydore.aone.net.au>
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- Hi,
-
- Here's a question for all you hardware guru's out there that understand
- the SVGA chipset. I've always assumed that opening multiple screens was
- an ability of the Amiga because of its custom chipset, and that this was a
- trick that the SVGA chips couldn't do, so we couldn't have such tricks
- like page swapping and the like.
-
- Recently, I've seen some PC demos that make me wonder about this assumption.
-
- These demos have _no_ flicker doing full screen animation. Is this simply
- beam synced pixel writing, or are these video cards indeed pageswapping
- the video RAM?
-
- Later,
-
- Neil O'Rourke
- neilo@m140.aone.net.au
-
- "Naturally, we maintain plausable denial" - Cancer Man, The X Files
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