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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 04:12:04 GMT
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- On 29 Mar 1996 23:13:47 GMT, lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen) wrote:
-
- >: 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.
-
- We'll have to agree to disagree on what determines fast. Perhaps I'm
- too used to 1024x768 at 65000 colors, but to me, 640x400 @ 16 NI is
- pretty slow, 64 colors NI is unusably slow, and 8 bit color is a bad
- joke with AGA.
-