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- From: leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry)
- Subject: Re: The FALCON - too slow ??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.120947.7843@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- References: <BxIB4y.3qq@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1dprp3INN9rg@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Nov11.040149.6428@rmece49.upr.clu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:09:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.040149.6428@rmece49.upr.clu.edu> raist@rmece02.upr.clu.edu (Ricardo Hernandez) writes:
- >In article <1dprp3INN9rg@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys) writes:
- >|>
- >|> In a previous article, cdw@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Christopher Walton) says:
- >|>
- >|> >A friend yesturday said he'd seen the FALCON in Dusseldoff and the screen scrolling
- >|> >in 'true colour' mode was like glue. I haven't actually seen a falcon yet but I
- >|> >have read most articles on it and this wasn't mentioned. Since he owns a TT
- >|> >and is likely to be biased, can anyone else set my mind at rest ???
- >|> >
- >|> >Thanks - Chris (cdw@dcs.ed.ac.uk)
- >|>
- >|> Maybe the software made it slow?
- >|>
- > It shall be slow... it is more memory to move + CPU memory contention
- >since the video bus is the same as the cpu bus to memory.
- >
- >- Raist
- >
-
- It is slow because Atari STILL haven't made use of STe's hardware scrolling
- (which I assume is available on the Falcon) in TOS. Apart from the slowdown
- due to loss of available memory bandwidth, scrolling should not be any slower
- in the Falcon's high resolution modes.
- The funny thing is that Atari recently complained about games programmers
- not using the facilities of the STe.
-
- - Leo
-