Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!peterk From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: DCTV from digital creations Message-ID: <417@cbmger.UUCP> Date: 14 Sep 90 15:24:30 GMT References: <4290@crash.cts.com> <1990Sep10.003304.4678@bushido.uucp> <403@cbmger.UUCP> <1990Sep14.063455.5219@news.iastate.edu> Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany Lines: 22 In article <1990Sep14.063455.5219@news.iastate.edu> skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L) writes: > > This falls into the current Amiga video discussion, try this idea on for >size. A third party developer designs a video card that fits into one of the >Amiga slots based on their favorite graphics coprocessor, Intuition is modified >slightly so that all graphic operations can either execute using the standard >Amiga graphics hardware *OR* they can use a jump table to jump to routines in >autoconfig memory occupied by this hypothetical card. It also seemed to me >that such a card would invariably be loaded with it's own dedicated graphics >memory, freeing up chip ram and reducing bus contention. This seems as though > -- George Well, this *IS* difficult, because the different parts of the operating system all depend on this current hardware, so a big part of the OS would have to be rewritten. Also you risk to lose some of the important Amiga features, eg being able to drag a screen and split your display into two or more screens with totally different display modes. I don't think you can teach a framebuffer card these tricks. -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk