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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Next Amiga system
Message-ID: <7313@well.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 08:29:33 GMT
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Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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In article <3320@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp) writes:
>Here! Here!  A lot of people (including myself) believe that things like
>bus bandwidth are more useful than blitters.  Blitters seem great in a 2D
>world, but hey we live in a 3D visual world.  Has anyone used a blitter to
>aid in 3D graphics yet?
>
	Sega seems to do quite well with them.  Outrun et. al. use scaling
blitters.

	Actually, what they use is a dedicated 68000 to perform the needed
blitting, but it's the same principle.

	Nevertheless, I'd like a Geometry Engine, too.

	Does anyone have any benchmarks on the XTAR chipset?

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