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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 21 Mar 96 11:56:52 +0000
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- Hi, UNREGISTERED VERSION , on 17-Mar-96 17:23:09 you scribbled....
- >>>>To be brutally honest, with the prices of decent SVGA chipsets what
- >>>>they aren't, and the emergence of CyberGraphX, who cares?
- >>> Where are the copper, multiple-playfields, hardware scrolling line by
- >>> line,
- >>>blitters with tons of effects,video timing controrl, etc.?
- >>>Maybe the internet crowd doesn't care, but the opinions on the street that
- >>>I've encountered are strikingly different.
- >>You do that in software.
- > Not all of it can be donein software.
- >Also try having 4 24bitplanes playfields smooth scrolling line by line with
- >transparency effects between playfields at 800x600 at 72fps. With a Hombre
- >Plus that would require barely above 0% of system resources. A clone probably
- >couldn't handle it, and even if some super clone could, it would be utterly
- >swamped.
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- clones are here now ...Hombre never saw the outside of a lab....
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- custom chips are dead, cheap off-the-shelf chips are faster/cheaper
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- All we need is PPC/PCI and software!
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- Mike
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