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- From: bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Bernd Meyer)
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- Subject: Re: Possible loss of the Copper (was Re: AB3D II beats Quake....)
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- Date: 3 Apr 1996 14:46:43 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
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- Fabio Bizzetti (bizzetti@mbox.vol.it) wrote:
- :
- : >>Bernd Meyer (bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au) wrote:
- : >>: : Fabio Bizzetti (bizzetti@mbox.vol.it) wrote:
- : >>: : : On a SVGA the scroll would be 2 frames / sec, with 100% CPU and SVGA
- : >>: : : use.
- : >>: *Grin* Then how do you explain the fact that my X-Server is running a
- : >>: 1400x1300 "logical" screen and is scrolling it over a 320x200, a 320x240,
- : >>: a 640x480, a 800x600 or a 1024x768 physical screen by just changing the
- : >>: (gasp) start of video memory address? With normally around 80 frames /sec
- : >>: scroll (I don't run with less than 80Hz vertical refresh ;-), and almost 0
- : >>: CPU time?
- :
- : Yeah, C64's VicII made it better.
-
- Yes? 1400x1300, at 80Hz? I don't quite think so.....
-
- : Anyway.. to "scroll" horizontally a screen, as you say your SVGA does, you need
- : more than just the simple VGA ram->RGB circuits, because the chip fetches data
- : with burst modes that must be xxxbits aligned.
- : Thus, if your SVGA board is really able to scroll horizontally, its designers
- : specifically wanted this feature (for horizonthal scroolling).
-
- And, wonder over wonder, the designers of the very first VGA board (you
- know, the one that came from IBM) obviously wanted this, and so every
- VGA board ever since has been able to do it. Every single one. Now
- is that really such a hard concept to grasp?
-
- : As I said better, this is 1980 video-chips features, so stop drolling for your
- : SVGA.
-
- I'm neither drolling(?) nor drooling --- I'm just pointing out that the
- above comment from a rabid Amigoid obviously bears no resemblance with
- reality.
-
- Bernie
-
-