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- On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Magnus Kollberg wrote:
-
- > I think I will get an accelrator soon to be able to play Bad Mood at full speed.
- > :-) I wonder if the FX-card will ever get that "turbo" mode with a transfer rate
- > of 20MB/s insteed of 8MB/s. Have anyone heard anything abou this, or are the
- > BlowUp guys only dreaming?
-
- I'm in a direct contact with the author of FX - Georg Acher. I've asked
- the same thing month ago. He said that the Fast Page mode surely will come
- one day. I believe him. Worse is that Doug made great optimization for ST
- RAM, so I'm not sure how much the Fast Fast RAM will increase the frame rate.
-
- > How should they do it then. The falcon just can't handle higher clockrates and
- > doesn't have a true 32 bit bus.
-
- They should go directly to 040.
-
- > The only way to do it is like this or like the FX-card, but the Hawk will
- > be _much_ faster. Wizztronic have said that it's even faster than the
- > Afterburner. I guess the 256kbyte cache is responsible for this and that it
- ^^^^^^^^^
- that can't be true. 040 is 040 ;-)
-
- > depend on how you compare them.
-
- yep. I'm pretty sure Linux would run on Afterburner much faster than on Hawk.
-
- > Yup, but as I said, they have said many things but nothing have turned up yet...
-
- That's the main reason for buying Afterburner, because it exists! ;-)
-
- Petr
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