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- From: lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 23:13:47 GMT
- Organization: UNINETT news service
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- David Corn (dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:
- : On 19 Mar 1996 00:39:57 GMT, apierre@ix.netcom.com(Anthony R Pierre)
- : wrote:
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- : >In <4ijt7c$n5c@nyx.cs.du.edu> kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
- : >writes:
- : >>Do you want to put that
- : >>Amiga in a non-interlaced, non-flickering graphics mode and watch it
- : >>crawl?
- : >
- : >Err.... not for nothing, but I am looking at my nonflickering 1950
- : >monitor plugged into my Amiga 3000 (or, if I wish, plug in my 17" PC
- : >monitor for a 'bigger' picture) and it isnt crawling. As a matter of
- : >fact, it is the same speed that my flickering 2000 is.
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- : Because the Amiga 3000 has a deinterlace hardware port. The AGA
- : Amigas' speed nosedive when put into nonlace 640x400, and it's even
- : worse with 256 colors vs, say, 16 or 64.
-
- Urk David.
- On a 640x400/16 NI screen AGA is actually quite swift - even 32.
- Performance usually does not start to *nosedive* until the chipram-
- bus gets saturated, in 128 and 256 colormodes.
- Cheers...
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