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- From: "Frank Wille" <frank@phoenix.owl.de>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 23:31:18 +0200
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- Subject: Re: Ideas
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- Organization: Phantasm
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- Joey McDonald wrote on 29 Dec 95 22:47:41
- about "Ideas" :
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-
- JM> Basic Idea:
- JM>
- JM> The Agnus chip controls the amount of ram the custom chips can access.
- JM> Isn't there SOME way to "trick" the custom chips into using a section
- JM> (a larger section) of fast ram as though it were chip memory? Kind of
- JM> "retargeting" all calls for chip ram to fast ram?
-
- Completely impossible.
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-
- JM> I have always been told that it's a "hardware" thing.. but I still
- JM> don't see why a clever programmer couldn't do this.
-
- Yes, it's a hardware thing, indeed. The problem is, that the custom
- chips have only a connection to Chip Ram, they don't even know
- about other Ram. The Amiga has two seperate buses, the Chip Ram-
- and the Fast Ram bus, and only the CPU can access both.
-
- Also, there's no 'retargetting' possible, because Agnus doesn't
- include a MMU, AFAIK... ;))
-
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