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From: neil@celia.UUCP (Neil Richmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: DCTV @ 7MHz?
Message-ID: <1058@celia.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 91 17:51:52 GMT
References: <15408@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Reply-To: celia!neil@usc.edu (Neil Richmond)
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In article <15408@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> webbs@handel.cs.colostate.edu (Steven Lee Webb) writes:
>Hello.
>
>I know that everyone is tired of reading reviews of DCTV, but could someone
>please tell me how DCTV runs at 7MHz?  I am almost ready to buy one, but I'm
>wondering if I'm going to have to wait an hour for results.  I've never seen
>DCTV run at slower than 25MHz, so perhaps a Stock 500 would be slower than
>a snail crawling across fly-paper!
>
>I'd like times for reading a raw, hi-res 24-bit pic from HD.
>cutting out & resizing a brush.

I found the performance on my unaccelerated A2000 to be acceptable. It is not
as good as an accelerated A2000 or an A3000, but it was okay. I read in DCTV
images in about 30 secs to 1 minute. It took a little while for it to set up 
the image. There were some image processing things going on. In DCPaint, most
things happened in a reasonable time. The airbrush was a little slow, 
especially if you chose a large brush and made it very transparent. But, I was
able to get used to it and it didn't bother me too much after a while. One 
reason I did get an A3000  was to get better response on the brushes. You will
need at least 3 megs. I know it will run on less, but it will limit you a lot
to use less than 3 megs. I bought DCTV based on what I saw in performance on
a stock A2000. Since I bought it, I was disappointed that the stencil was only
1 bit, on or off. I hope this improves on the next release of the software.


neil

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