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- From: tfrieden@fax.uni-trier.de (Thomas Frieden)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga doesn`t need Planar!
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 11:33:39 GMT
- Organization: Universitaet Trier
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- T.L. Mensah (u4tlm@csc.liv.ac.uk) wrote:
- : [..snip..]
- :
- : 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
- : [..snip..]
- That's just plain nonsense. The copper sure is a useful chip, but it's
- not the only thing about the Amiga.
-
- :
- : 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!
- Right, the memory use of planar was the major point back in 1985, with
- the standard machine having 256kb of ram. Now, you have a base memory
- size of 2 mb (a1200), so that's not true anymore. Apart from that, a
- gfx board has its own memory.
- You sure have not seen a Cybervision in action, have you ? This "CLUNKY"
- board can do the same tricks as an a500, plus some more things impossible
- on this machine, at a higher speed, just using the cpu.
-
- :
- : Amiga Rules... Custom Chips Rule..
- :
- : HIT THE HARDWARE! HIT THE HARDWARE! HIT THE HARDWARE! HIT THE HARDWARE!
- :
- Great, the whole world agrees that rtg is the way to go, and you try to
- teach us this stupid slogan. THIS IS JUST PLAIN STUPID!!!!!
-
-
- : 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! :)
- See above, just plain stupid!
-
- CU,
- --
- Thomas Frieden o Schlossstrasse 176 o 54293 Trier/Germany
- email: inf02@uni-trier.de o tfrieden@fax.uni-trier.de
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