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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: >>>>>>> The Future: Amiga goes PC (...aeh: "PowerMsPenti...?) <<<<<
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 13:09:13 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4cb799$83e@serpens.rhein.de>
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- mats@plea.se (Mats Magnusson) writes:
-
- >Well, another stupid thing about Akiko is that it also holds equalents to both
- >the 8520's, but all i/o ports are not let out of the chip case, which means
- >that you still must have two standard 8520 also to get the paralell port,
- >disk control signals and other such stuff...
-
- It would be stupid to use a much more expensive package with all the
- signals put on pins, especially when the CD32 doesn't even have a
- connector for the ports.
-
- >Why didn't they implement c2p in denise,
-
- Because a) it cannot be used for that and c) because it is a custom
- design that is pretty expensive. Akiko is a simple gate array. You can
- buy even smaller gate arrays suitable for this kind of c2p for $20 each.
-
- >an ugly but easy to bulid way
- >would just be to bypass the shift registers for each bitplane,
-
- The very problem with that approach is that you do not get a contigous
- byte plane. You either have just a single "byteplane pointer" or
- the pixels would be interleaved.
-
- It would also require a new custom chip design while the solution
- in Akiko didn't cost anything.
-
- >hold one bitplane, would instead hold every eighth chunky pixel, you wuld
- >then need to do some bit-rotating of the x-pointer, but it would anyway
- >be a great improvement,
-
- Don't think so. The time won by avoiding c2p conversion is lost by
- converting all the pointers. And it doesn't solve the _real_ problem:
- the low bandwidth to chip memory.
-
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- Michael van Elst
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