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From: sschaem@starnet.uucp (Stephan Schaem)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga Custom Chips - why hasn't C= made them faster?
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.224429.22917@starnet.uucp>
Date: 5 Apr 91 22:44:29 GMT
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 To anyone looking for 'new' idea... Look at the2 3 year old X68000.
 16bit, but use 'multy bus'.With a text mode overlay with all the
 diferent video mode up to 2 256 color dualplayfield (plus text mode
 overlay) and another mode.
 Plus a bank for 65535 colors sprites (alot of them!).So for any kind of
 anymation a blitter is useless.

 Or the video from the FM_Towns.With hardware posibilities like 360
 degrea real time screen rotation on a 24 bitplane screen.
 or real time zoom on its linkable sprites etc...

 Both have CD suport for year.
 The above is what I saw, and both machine are not that expansive (Check
 LOGIN for latest price tag).
 The first is a 680x0 based machine (with accelerator available) from
 Sharp.
 The second is from Fujitsu, intel based machine :-(

 FM_TOWNS 32bit machine, X68000 16bit. You dont have to go 32 bit to
 have more power on amiga?! Put 2 set of custom chip in parrale:-)

							Stephan