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- From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: More Official Falcon Specs wanted
- Message-ID: <10004@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 03:53:24 GMT
- References: <A14190@F.maus.de> <1992Aug26.105113.14515@hsr.no>
- Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au
- Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au
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- leikvoll@hsr.no (Morten Leikvoll) writes:
-
- > > - BLITTER 16 MHZ
-
- >And how much memory can it handle??
-
- This is an interesting question, since I believe even the more recent
- Amigas have something like a 1-meg limit on "chip memory". The blitter
- on the ST had no such restrictions and the Falcon blitter is fully
- compatible with that one. I supose it could, technically be limited to
- 4Meg - since the entire ST could only (theoretically :-]) handle 4Meg.
-
- > > Video:
- > > - Hardware scrolling
-
- >What about 'character screen' like the C64 and (i guess) 520 series. This lacks
- >in the Amiga... (I'am an Amiga owner)
-
-
- I don't think anything uses HARDWARE "character screens" (as in C64 and
- Atari 800) any more - the 520 certainly didn't (the text mode their is
- still graphical). The reason is that software "character screens" can
- EASILY be updated faster-than-the-eye-can read. And after all, text
- is only useful to be "read". Okay, tell me about redefined character
- sets, and 4-pixel colour text and other fancies the old 8-bits had...
- No point these days.
-
- Oh, I forgot - PC's still have a text screen. For DOS.
-
-
- >> Harddisk
- >> - intern optional IDE-bus Harddisk (2,5")
-
- >Included in the 500 GBpounds???? (if yes...count me in...)
-
- Many have listed "$US1300" as Falcon+4Meg+65MegHD. Count me in on that.
- (actually, tell me the price for 14Meg first - that's necessary for
- serious multitasking in a development environment)
-
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- Warwick
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