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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Software vs 1M CHIP ram (CHIP = video)
Message-ID: <6741@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 23:14:10 GMT
References: <140962@neabbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <140962@neabbs.UUCP> amichel@neabbs.UUCP (MICHEL LANGEREIS) writes:
>Add this one to your list, VideoEffects 3D. Will not work on the 1Mb
>*videoram* ;-) Amiga. The guys at Innovision didn't know about the release
>of the new Agnus, the guys at CBM here didn't know, and the guy installing
>the software here for customers at customers plants didn't know.

I suspect that they call explicitly for FAST RAM.  Guess what ?  On a 1 Meg chip
memory, there *is* no fast ram.  So the allocation for fast memory
(not public memory; it would work then) fails.

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