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The following text is reproduced "AS IS", from the intro from
the rather good ( ! ) Team Hoi demo "MINDWARP".
Everyone seems to hype about the "ADVANCED" Amigas nowadays.....
Please allow us to inform you of the hard(ware) facts concerning
the new AMIGA 1200.
Did you know,for instance, that both the Blitter and the Copper
(the Amiga's most important trumps) have not become ANY faster
with regard to the "old" Amiga...?!
The new A.G.A machines have got no 24-bits incarnation of the old
Copper, it is just the same one as in the standard Amiga.
That is not all...
If you own an A.G.A Amiga with a C.P.U faster than the standard
68020 (like an A1230 or an A4000), the following phenomenon will
occur: the bitplanes you use and the higher your resolution is,
the slower your blitter will operate!
The delay problems seem to commensurate with the speed of your
C.P.U...!
These setbacks do NOT mean that you can not do anything better
than before.
The fireworks in the introduction of our previous demo
("PLANET GROOVE") show 8192 dots on screen simultaneously,
in two bitplanes and a 24-bits colour gradient in the background.
(not to mention the music)
The Planet Groove interludes calculate a colour-cycling high
resolution picture in 256 colours.
The "A star is born" part contains a 128-sided blitter polygon
in five bitplanes and "My fair lady" is a realtime manipulation
of a full size low resolution picture.
Finally, "Phantom of the opera" cross-fades two low resoluion
pictures of four bitplanes each,in 256 different phases,while
scrolling a high resolution scrolltext with a colour effect at the
bottom of the overscan screen.
The whole demo runs in Fifty frames per second on a standard AMIGA
1200 and was programmed without any specific A.G.A hardware
documentation in february 1993. It is the very first "Illegally"
programmed demonstration in the world.
We hope this information will satisfy sceptics and specification
freaks. If you are interested in Team Hoi's audiovisual efforts
(including commercial games), Please feel free to contact us at
the folloing address :->
Team Hoi
ALBRECHTLAAN 14
1404 AK
BUSSUM
THE NETHERLANDS.
Thank you for your kind interest and we now invite you to enjoy
this new production called "MINDWARP"
Created in APRIL and released in JUNE 1993 (Due to a hard-disk
crash)......
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Well what do you think of that lot !
The A1200 hasn't changed its Copper or Blitter?
Well it just goes to show that once you have a good thing,
you don't need to change it ! ! ! ! !
NOW CHECK OUT THE MINDWARP DEMO. available from most good
P.D. Libraries, or direct from us!
(see P.D. reviews section for price and address).