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From: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: another cmi board question
Message-ID: <1367@percival.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 88 19:30:30 GMT
References: <12528@cisunx.UUCP>
Reply-To: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
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In article <12528@cisunx.UUCP> bdjst@cisunx.UUCP (Ratso) writes:
>Well, anther question about the CMI accelerator.  Hw does it work with genlocks?
>I am asking because I was under the impression that the 7.19 (or whatever) Mhz
>rate was important for NTSC compatability.  I would like to use the board for
>animation work, especially to speed up and smooth playanim.  So the switch to
>make it 7.19 to tape would defeat one of my major reasns for buying the board.
>Ben Jacobs
>University of Pittsburgh

I don't see any reason why the CMI PA would cause any problems with a
genlock.  I have one in my machine, and have noticed a little speedup
with animation playback.  But, it's subtle, the playback speedup is more
substantial with an '020'.  So, if you're only reason for getting the
board is to speedup animation playback, it might not be worth it.  What 
it WILL give you is a substantial speedup when rendering the frames. 
Remember that the biggest speedup you'll find will be in math intensive
opereations.  Hope this helps.

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