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- From: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Possible loss of the Copper (was Re: AB3D II beats Quake....)
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 16:46:12 GMT
- Organization: Video On Line
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1882.6674T946T1858@mbox.vol.it>
- References: <1068.6673T1328T2093@netspace.net.au>
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- >>> Then how do you explain that old Trident card demo poking
- >>> registers and scrolling an 8-bit VGA-screen with the same ease
- >>> as on the Amiga?
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- >>Your missing the point. The point is that when a PC is doing that the CPU
- >>is/was busy. So You can easely make some nice DEMO programs, put their
- >>is'nt/was'nt CPU power left for any program. Besides, Without talking about
- >>facts and numbers, try looking at a few old arcade like games on the Amiga,
- >>and the PC. There is a difference!
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- >No, you're missing the point. By doing it via the Trident registers, you're
- >achieving the same effect as the Amiga custom chips. Very little CPU usage.
- >It's just OS- unfriendly.
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- You missed the points.
- 1) The Trident's registers don't give you the Copper, the hardware sprites, the
- programmable BITPLANEs pointers and modulo through the copper, etc..etc..[..]
- 2) Also *if* Trident was cool, how many people have it??
- 3) Also *if* Trident was cool, how many should buy that in 1996?
- 4) A1200 users?
- 5) You missed the points again.
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- 6) :D
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- >--
- >Paul Dossett | EpiphoneYamahaPearlPaiste | Amiga 2000/040/17/365/ZIP/3.1__
- >-------------| Amiga owner since 1988! | Amiga CD32/020/10/200/3.1 __///
- >Melbourne OZ | astroboy@netspace.net.au | 1976 Toyota Corolla 1.2 \XX/
- > | ObWebSite : http://netspace.net.au/~astroboy/
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- 7) ;)
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- | Fabio "Maverick" Bizzetti - bizzetti@mbox.vol.it - Maverick* at IRC |
- | The maker of "CyberMan" and "Virtual Karting" |
- | working on "VirtualRally" & "StarFighter" |
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- 8) Still reading this?
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- 9) ? :)
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- 10) The only Trident that (perhaps..) rules is the well known chewing-gum,
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