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- From: Ronald@noblehouse.xs4all.nl (Ronald van Eijck)
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
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- In article <3147CA36.5819@sapiens.com> Avi Lev <avil@sapiens.com> writes:
- > EXACTLY!!!! show me one PC gfx accelerator that can do what the custom chips do and let's do comparisons of
- > who's better, in the mean time, don't say any nonsense about the chip-set cuz you obviously hav'nt used them to
- > their full potential, they're HIGHLY specialised chips, designed specifically for high-quality graphics, and
- > considering the relativly low price of even an accelerated A1200, that's quite an accomplishment, and besides
- > there are gfx accelerators for heavy 3D applications that together with the chip-set put every PC as a museum
- > exhibit item, nothing to look at. try running games, and that's the best measure IMHO because most ppl use the
- > Amiga in that way and you'll see the difference, you can joke as much as you want but the AGA chips make a much
- > better jobs handling the display and sound of such applications than any PC gfx accel. can. what the Amiga
- > lacks is simply RAW computing power, but that'll change as soon as the PowerAmiga's are introduced, then we'll
- > really be kickin' some PC ass. this step will definitly put the Amiga as the leading platform and consequently
- > as the dominant machine, fair well to the PC, that lousy excuse for a computer. hehehe.
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- And what are these great effects? Scrolling, midscreen color changes?
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- If you have a much higher bandwith to your display memory, 16/24 bit direct color
- displays and cpu power to drive it all you don't need the tricks anymore, you can
- refresh every displayed pixel every frame on modern chipsets (at leat in your
- average games screen resolution). But that will eat lots of bandwith and cpu power.
- Who cares, you didn't have that bandwith or cpu power on AA systems to begin with.
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- On the other hand there is no way an AA system can do the 'tricks' these modern
- chipsets can like displaying high resolution in true color and still have bandwith/
- cpu power enough to make quick changes to the display. If you think AA can do it
- put it in superhireslace 256 color overscan and try to open a window.
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- C'ya,
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- * Ronald van Eijck
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- * If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear
- * the result of a hundred battles. (Sun Tzu)
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