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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: RTG-Copper???
- Date: 06 Feb 96 13:02:47 +0000
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- Hi, Steffen P. Haeuser , on 05-Feb-96 12:31:21 you scribbled....
- >Maarten D. de Jong (dejong@cpt6.stm.tudelft.nl) wrote:
- >: What will happen to our dear friend the Copper when the Amiga is RTG-ized?
- >: (and RTA-ized, for that matter). Or will he still be around for us to play
- >: with?
-
- >The question is "Is the Copper still needed, then?" Just some days ago i saw
- >a Plasma-style effect that looked like many of these flame effects that are
- >done using the Copper in some demos... and it ran on CyberGraphX, it ran on
- >EGS, it ran on Picasso II, and it was faster then all those Copper Plasma
- >effects !!! (Using fast chunky Graphics with the Alpha Release of
- >rtgmaster.library...) It even ran on AGA using a c2p (okay, on AGA it was
- >very slow... but rtgmaster is intended for GFX Boards, as this is the way to
- >go, anyway...)
-
- >At this point... demo coders who want to learn about GFX Board coding, who
- >want to get a library system that enables them doing GFX Board compatible
- >stuff even *without* owning a GFX Board Amiga should contact me...
-
- better still why not make the info public?
-
- Am I just apranoid, or does it seem that info is withheld when you try to
- program on the amiga.
-
- (Re availability of aga-h/w bashing guide, but not 3.1 devkit..))
-
- >--
- > Steffen Haeuser - haeuser@minnie.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
- > WWW:
- > http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/fachschaft/adressen/haeuser.html
- > Keeper of the Amiga Texturemapping FAQ Irc:MagicSN (try telnet
- > 194.55.101.20)
- >
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- Mike
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