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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker Case: two choices.
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 01:06:26 GMT
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- Message-ID: <1103.6677T1105T2826@gramercy.ios.com>
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- >Regarding bandwidth: Yes.. High frequency is probably wanted. But there
- >is no need to get the worst (best) of those chips. A normal chip with
- >say 90-100MHz bandwidth is probably more than any normal user will
- >need. I don't get what you are after? Just because you won't be able
- >to bang the h/w in the way you are used to you don't have to demand
- >the most expensive chips..
- I'm not sure what youmean by MHz, bandwidth is usually listed in terms of
- MB/s for gfx chips and busses. You'd need a LOT, if you were to emulate all
- sorts of effects that come free with an Amiga-style chipset with a blitter or
- CPU.
-
- >I won't argue with you about Hombre (AAA) because even if it is
- >"outdated" it still has impressive performance. But it also is very
- >expensive compared to "of the shelf" S-VGA chips. (S-VGA is not a
- >bad thing. They perform good at a low cost.)
- Current off the shelf SVGA stink unless all you want to do are run a WB and
- some basic applications. Also, Hombre isn't the same thing as AAA, except for
- the lack of 8bit modes, it was much more powerful than AAA and much cheaper as
- well.
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