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- From: jharris@cup.portal.com (John D Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: HD support - When?????
- Message-ID: <72340@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 22:15:49 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Dec22.214630.22472@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- >When is the HD support for MAC apps going to be available? Will HD support
- >be available for the A1200?
-
- Right now. I had an existing AMax partition on my HD, and Emplant boots
- from and operates with it with no problems so far.
-
- >Also, how much faster is the video on the A1200 with the AGA chipset compared
- >to the A3000 - say for a 16 color desktop.
-
- Video drivers for Emplant are about to get a dramatic improvement. Jim
- Drew now has an MMU based routine that updates much faster than the old
- routines, and with less CPU overhead. Only the 2 and 4 color modes are
- finished right now, but he will provide a 16 color version after
- Christmas. 16 color is supposed to run 60 FPS, and be faster than the old
- 2-4 color modes. It should be only slightly slower than the new 2-4 color
- modes. The 1200 without an MMU won't benefit from this, and so I expect
- that the A3000 will produce a faster display than the 1200. The A4000 of
- course has both advantages, and should produce an awesome display,
- possibly 256 colors at 60 FPS.
-