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- From: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: These technical terms...
- Date: 21 Apr 1996 13:39:31 GMT
- Organization: Video On Line
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- >>In article <4l17o8$btf@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>,
- >>Juergen Fischer <fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> wrote:
- >>>SO TELL ME WHY THE DAMN DOOM IS FASTER THAN ANY CLONE I SAW
- >>>EVEN ALTHOUGH THE BANDWIDTH OF THAT BLOODY VGA IS 1.75MB/SEC ?
- >>>HUH ?
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- >>Well, Doom is texture-mapped raycasting, and as such, is all chunky.
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- >Why? What special advantage does chunky architecture give for this
- >application?
- >(and spare me the explanation of planar/chunky architecture, please).
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- >Patrick Sheffield
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- The problem "chunky vs planar" did born when "Amiga programmers" instead of
- analyzing how to use the 680x0 registers set, Blitter/Copper tricks, simply
- copied pEEEEEEcEEEEEE ( :-) ) methods, that were of course based on the very
- simple (as hardware design) 8bit chunky mode, and wrote the lamest "emulation"
- routines, called "c2p" (chunky to planar conversion).
- This is not what I call "Amiga programming".
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- These same people now say that the Amiga must become a pEEcEE, because they
- became pEEcEE programmers, at the point to say that the copper is useless,
- as well as the independent bitplane pointers, the DDFSTRT/DDFSTOP tricks,
- the modulo tricks, the blitter, the sixteen 32bit internal 680x0's registers..
-
- These people should buy a pEEcEE and fuck off.
-
- ~Kindly,
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