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- From: astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 12:08:02 GMT
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- Patrick William Mackin (pwm5k@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU) said:
- >babbage@dmu.ac.uk writes:
- >>
- >> whats the cost of an AGA chipset?
- >> Something like 3$ to produce isnt it?
-
- >Well, then, let's see some AGA upgrades for ECS machines, or at
- >least the A3000! Come on, no complaints that "AGA is
- >outdated." It may not equal a CV64, but it is much much much
- >better than ECS, and probably most users still have ECS. I
- >think for $100, they would sell MILLIONS of these things!
-
- Well, it can't be done, as it's a 32bit system, and ECS units only have a 16bit
- datapath. Don't you think it would have been done by now if it were possible?
-
- >Besides, 800x600x256 is available in AGA, and that's all I
- >need! That's about all VGA/SVGA does anyway (and even if you
- >*can* do more colors, most Windoze apps ONLY work in 256
- >colors!!!
-
- But SVGA does it 10+ times faster, and all programs work with it.
-
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