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From: cpca@iceman.jcu.oz (C Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: not good news
Message-ID: <1084@iceman.jcu.oz>
Date: 19 Oct 90 07:11:53 GMT
References: <33589@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <11393@life.ai.mit.edu> <703@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <703@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk>, db@cs.ed.ac.uk (Dave Berry) writes:
> In article <11393@life.ai.mit.edu> rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) wrote:
> Obviously many games benefit from the Amiga's animation facilities.
> But adventure-style games show still pictures.  I've seen some quite
> impressive 256 colour super VGA pictures in games.  There are even some
> flight simulators that claim to use 256 colour VGA, although I
> haven't seen them and I suspect that this claim is bogus.

It isn't...

> In the short term, it seems to me that the low-end amigas need
> revamping with the ECS, including the de-interlacer and a multi-sync
> socket.  Games that use 640x512 resolution would keep the Amiga
> ahead in that field, even with only 16 colours.  It sounds like

ECS wouldn't be enough.  Games would find it hard to use 640*512 in
16 colours as the blitter would be locked out for the entire display.

Totally new chips are needed.  Nowdays in CMOS it should be possible
to put Paula+Denise+SuperAgnus into 1 chip, and add features 
ADD increase the clock speed.  Banked Chip RAM would be great too,
with a controller determining who has priority access to a 
CHIP bank the same way Agnus does for the Chip bus at the moment.

Ideally it would allow several accesses to chip memory at once.
This is how a CRAY works, so can you imagine the hype C= could
use if they could put it on a home computer, and it really wouldn't
cost that much.

>  Dave Berry, LFCS, Edinburgh Uni.      db%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk

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