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- From: CRISI@BLACKBOX.shnet.org (Christian )
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- Organization: .oO PHANTASM Oo.
- Subject: Re: Demos on graphiccards
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 01:16:00 +0100
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- It was 17.02.1996 at 14:06:04 when agos001@pn.itnet.it ("Stefano Agostinelli")
- wrote about "Re: Demos on graphiccards":
- SA> Holger_Hippenstiel wrote in comp.sys.amiga.programmer about "Re: Demos on
- SA> graphiccards":
- SA> > Depends on the Screen-depth, with 4 Colors a A4030 or A4060 you get upto
- SA> > 7.2MB/s (A4040 only 50% of that !), but the most effects run in 64-256
- SA> > Colors, the Bandwidth reduces the Speed to 3-3.8MB/s (Overscan etc), so
- SA> > overall drawn on a Gfx-Card it will be faster because the C2P-Function is
- SA> > useless. (And this gives 20-30% more Performance too !)
- SA>
- SA> A4060?And isn't C2P "free" for 040s?
- SA>
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- It's only "free" (i.e. you can do enough c2p between two chipram CPU
- access cycles) if there is nothing else to do, which is seldom the
- case, of course.
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