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From: poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BlackBelt may not be a great solution. (for animation)
Summary: Animation?
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Date: 12 Jan 90 19:45:35 GMT
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In article <5347@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> waynekn@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp) writes:
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<It doesn't matter if you have a Cray in your Amiga.  The bottle-neck
<Is the CHIP RAM, and you can't go any faster than you can put inforamtion
<into the chip RAM.  In the high res. 4 bit-plane mode, most of the time
<the CHIP RAM is busy putting out the display and the processor if often 
<forced to wait if it needs to update the CHIP RAM.  The screen being looked
<at has to reside in the CHIP RAM so there is no way around this problem.
<
<....It is just I don't think it will be
<as great for Ray-Traced animation as some people think.
<
<                                            Wayne Knapp

Pardon my ignorance, as I'm not sufficiently into the animation scene,
but this implies that the Amiga, whether stock or accelerated, can't do
a good job of regular 16-color high-res four-plane animation?  This surprises
me a little, as I can't remember hearing anybody complaining about it
before now.  Anyone have some sample data on high-res frame rates?

	Cheers,
	Charles Poirier