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- From: nas20@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: ARM3 speeds on a 12MHz memory system
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.183437.25296@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 18:34:37 GMT
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- Reply-To: nas20@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Smith)
- Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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- Well, I have hunted back thorough the last 70 messages of comp.sys.acorn.tech
- and only found one messages entitled 'Re: Hi res modes' - I suppose I shall
- have to go and find an archive of it - or would some kind person like to
- email me a copy of the thread ?
-
- I have a PCATS graphics enhancer card (yes, they *do* work on A5000's - I
- don't know why Serial Port/Vertical Twist/etc/etc say they don't), and that
- is easily the best way to play with VIDC speeds. I have a 40MHz and 48MHz
- clock crystals, and you can easily switch between them in software. That
- way you can have your 800x600 mode on the 36MHz crystal, but switch to the
- higher rates for better resolution, or whatever.
-
- The factors that govern VIDC performance at high speed are unclear, and there
- is a lot of variation from VIDC to VIDC. For instance; Brian Brunswick can
- happily run 800x600x256 col on an old A440, but me with a relatively new
- A5000 + 12MHz memory system cannot (the memory would have made the mode usable,
- but the VIDC can't quite hack it 8-( I can manage stupidly high refresh rates,
- and high resolutions using the 48MHz crystal though - as long as they are 16col
- modes.
-
- Nick.
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- Nick Smith, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK. %$% Email: nas20@uk.ac.cam.phx
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