Re: Snes vs Megadrive rectification

[MkII]

>>A 7MHz 68000 can barely handle a single layer without additional hardware.
>>
>>Are you 100% sure those games use exclusively the CPU as the multilayer
>>engine?
>
>I'm 100% sure they don't :)
>
>The SNES and the MegaDrive both have VDP's that do the scrolling for them.

>The Sega Genesis has 2 layers with hardware scroll etc.
>Just like the Gfx9000 P1-modus, only with colors from a smaller palette
>(which doesn't look very nice).

Yeah. So what was the point of that "CPU immense power" then???

        MARK 2



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