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From: TLOW@KL.SRI.COM (Thomas Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Flicker Fixer Question
Keywords: flicker fixer bandwidth buss contention
Message-ID: <12426396991008@KL.SRI.COM>
Date: 29 Aug 88 22:37:23 GMT
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Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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I've been developing an application which requires both hi-res (640-400) and 
realtime animation. It appears the hires 16 color display uses up so much bus
bandwith that much of the advantage the blitter is lost for clearing the
screen and doing polygon fills.  Would a Flicker Fixer board help this
situation?  With this board, would the display memory fetches which now clog
the amiga bus be off loaded to a bus between the flicker fixer memory and the
D/A's on the card, or are these fetches still occuring on the amiga side of
the bus?  Any insight will be appreciated.  Send replies to tlow@kl.sri.com
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