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- From: jamesm@it.ntu.edu.au (James McArthur)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: NA Games magazines not covering Amiga titles as much
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 05:01:53 GMT
- Organization: Northern Territory University
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- G'Day Fabio Bizzetti, you wrote:
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- : >Most games do one of many thing, such as direct baning of the hardware
- : >registers, basing their raster timing on the specific screenmode (suchas
- : >PAL or NTSC so that they won't work with DblPAL/DblNTSC, let alone a grfx
- : >card. Others use sprites which the grfx card may not support, or they
- : >just don't like the fact that the grfx card's pallete is far more limited
- : >that AGA. Here is what I am talking about when comparing two colors:
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- : > AGA 8-bit screen
- : > Each color (0 to 255) can come from 8bits of red, green and blue.
- : > ie, Color # 135 = 10110100 01110110 10111111
- : > RED GREEN BLUE
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- : > CV64 8-bit screen
- : > Each color (0 to 255) can come from 5bits of red, green, and blue.
- : > ie, Color # 135 = 10110 01110 10111
- : > which is same as 10110000 01110000 10111000
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- : >As you see, they aren't the same color! The CV64 just can't do it.
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- : This is just another example of how crap are the minds behind SVGA chips..
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- : Did they run out of transistors to use 24bits rather than 15 for palette?
- : No, "it was not necessary".
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- : Sure.. for WinWord..
- : A pEEcEE chip into the Amiga of a user that really dislikes pEEcEE's? *puke*
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- : SVGA+ is the CGA of 1996.
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- So, if the choice existed between writing a 3D-supertexture-mapped-Hi-Octane
- clone on a sped up AGA (8 bit) or a 24bit CV64 screen which is faster then AGA,
- you would choose AGA?
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- : /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\
- : | Fabio "Maverick" Bizzetti - bizzetti@mbox.vol.it - Maverick* at IRC |
- : | The maker of "CyberMan" and "Virtual Karting" |
- : | working on "VirtualRally" & "StarFighter" |
- : \-----------------------------------------------------------------------/
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- James McArthur <jamesm@morinda.cs.ntu.edu.au && jamesm@taunet.net.au>
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