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- From: "Jyrki Saarinen" <jsaarinen@kone.fipnet.fi>
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 96 06:00:08 UT
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- Subject: Re: Amiga doesn`t need Pl
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-
- > >Nobody uses Mode-X nowadays
- >
- > Funny one.. :)
-
- Well, tell me why Mode-X should be used? I can think only
- two uses for it; platform games and flat polygons.
-
- > >they use 13h and a virtual
- > >screen in system ram and copy it to video ram each frame.
- >
- > Yes, and? Don't you think this is possible with Mode-X? In addition
-
- Ofcourse it is.
-
- > you get bigger screens, faster videoaccess, double/triple/quadruple
- > buffering.. The downside is ofcourse the lame addressing, but you
- > can't really have it all.
-
- Bullshit. Mode-X belongs to the history, and VESA modes are used
- nowadays.
-
- And most cards have SLOWER bandwidth in Mode-X. Where do you get
- these "facts"?
-
- -- _
- a Stellar programmer _ //
- "Amiga - back for the future" \X/
-