Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
References: <lgibb.0fui@burner.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:30:32 GMT
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lgibb@burner.com (Lance Gibb) writes:
>640x480 mode in 256 colors using DBLNTSC is CONSIDERABLY slower than a MacII series computer running a similar display and even a clone running a 256color VGA screen. Applications in 256 colors are painfully slow (most notibly workbench). I have tried Final Copy II in 256 colors and it is not bad, but does slow down considerably. (If you want specs, I can't give them to you, but as a user of all 3 platforms I can only make observations)
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>You CANNOT expand past 2 megs of chip ram. There is a jumper on the motherboard that says 2 meg chip/4 meg chip/etc.. But it is NON functional, and my dealer tells me it was at one time under consideration, but that the final production models were shipped with a 2 meg maximum capacity.
>As far as exact figures on drawing speed etc... I don't have them, but I can tell you that the 4000 updates the display MUCH quicker than a 3000. Ie. A picture that took 14 seconds to fully render under ADPro on a 3000, took less than 3 seconds on my 4000 (I know the 040 is to be given credit for part of the speed up, but the screen refresh rate is NOTICABLY faster)
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First off ever hear of a return key? Second, lets not forget that the graphics
on this is blitter graphics. As all they have owned an a500 and had good games
that use the blitter well, know that it is very powerful, and a saturated
aga at 640x480x256 is much faster, than a saturated a500 640x200x16. So quit
your bleaming whining. These graphics will do for most of us for now. I
know I love it, got tired of out typing on my word processing on my a500.
And I don't on my a1200. And I haven't even gotten any fast ram yet.
Which should speed things up considerably.
Wait until the really advanced chip sets come out, the specs will be great.
Heck you could blit your apps on those projected speeds and things will be
great.
Martin
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Bill SATAN LIVES Gates is the biggest enemy to personal computers ever.
