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- From: bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Bevis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: AA or AGA in A3000
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.050202.15400@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 05:02:02 GMT
- References: <1992Sep12.222804.8743@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> <1992Sep13.064603.14571@nntp.uoregon.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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- In article <1992Sep13.064603.14571@nntp.uoregon.edu> ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep12.222804.8743@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> 8800529@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU () writes:
- >> Any body in the know. The net should flud with info from the show
- >>Question ... How do I get AA (AGA) in the AMiga 3000.
- >
- >
- > The AGA chipset can not be put inside the A3000. AGA and ECS are not pin
- >compatable, and the A3000 doesn't have the bandwidth required to make use of
- >the new high-color graphics modes.
- >
-
- But I can't help wondering whether a new drop-in card might not be
- possible to fix this. Imagine a card with 2Mb of "new chip" RAM, its
- own local 32-bit chip memory bus, and the new custom chips. It would
- have its own video output, and interface neatly to the regular bus.
- I wonder... Maybe... I'm sure someone is already trying to figure
- out whether this is a realistic idea or not.
-
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