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- From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: So what about that damn'd kludgy pointer?
- Message-ID: <9587@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 06:47:15 GMT
- References: <1992Sep14.072630.21175@reed.edu>
- Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Organization: Commodore Germany
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- In article <1992Sep14.072630.21175@reed.edu> bthompso@reed.edu (Benjamin Thompson) writes:
- >What do you think C= has done about the kludgy sprites in the new chip
- >set for the A4000? Are we still going to be subjected to a 320x200
- >pointer on a 1280x512 screen?
-
- No, you now have Highres (and I believe also SuperHires) sprites and
- also their positioning.
-
- >Does anyone know the specs on the
- >blitter and sprites in the new hardware?
-
- Blitter is unchanged.
-
- >The obvious answer is you
- >get 4x more bandwidth to do stuff in, but does that translate into
- >more sprites or more resolution, or just more colors in the same
- >resolution. Hardware hackers want to know....
-
- Same resolutions as ECS, but all new and old display modes with all
- numbers of bitplanes up to 8. Doesn't 1280x512 SuperHires Ham8 sound
- promising??? I already saw a few pictures in HAM8: It's really great.
-
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