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- From: u4tlm@csc.liv.ac.uk (T.L. Mensah)
- Subject: Amiga doesn`t need Planar!
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- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 11:02:21 GMT
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- Why is it that every 2nd message I read about the what the amiga needs (in
- terms of programmers WANTS) is CHUNKY mode. WHY WHY WHY?? Its totally crazy!
-
- Everyone has gone DOOM crazy, all the programmers trying to relicate a game
- thats so booooring. Zzzzz Back to the older games like Shadow of the Best series
- and Flashback if you ask me.
-
- Anyway the Amiga is SPECIAL in its graphics handling capabilities, its probably
- one of the most flexibly and powerful display configuration systems in any home
- computer system, basically the copper chip is probably one of the BEST things
- about the Amiga. Using the copperlists gives the Amiga so much powers, its
- really an immensily clever chip. This is what the demo coders have been
- utilising for years ever since the A500 days. Now just because all these
- 3D techniques are suited to a CHUNKY display it doesn`t mean we need to
- replicate the LIMITED display capabilities of the so called "competition".
-
- The Amiga`s power lies within its copper chip NOT its cpu... if it had to
- rely on Cpu power alone the amiga would have died with the Atari ST! No
- all we really NEED is a immensily URGENT and CRAVING 64-bit uprated BLITTER
- CHIP. If the Blitter was say 100 Megabytes per second, like the CyberVision`s
- blitter we could simply use it to convert chunky-to-planar without worrying
- about the speed factor. No cpu time would be wasted as the blitter would
- do the operation in a few milliseconds. Here you get the best of Both worlds,
- multi-parallax , screen splitting, copper shading , and the rest and you
- could still do all those boring doom clones that are the latest Amiga coders
- "crazes" ever since Gloom reared its head..
-
- Planar rules, its far more flexible, you don`t need 256 colours worth of
- bitmap memory for a 2 color screen, etc. i.e you just use 2 Colours worth!
- basically planar display just blows away all these crappy chunky graphics
- cards. Basically chunky should be labelled as "CLUNKY!" ...all these "high"
- end graphics cards would chunk to a halt with half of the tricks that can
- be done on the bog standard A500 `s copperlist chip!
-
- Amiga Rules... Custom Chips Rule..
-
- HIT THE HARDWARE! HIT THE HARDWARE! HIT THE HARDWARE! HIT THE HARDWARE!
-
- All views expressed are my own, if you don`t agree with them, its not your
- fault that you don`t truly understand the Amiga`s edge! :)
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