Hello Andreas, on 29-Apr-99, you wrote:
> Sorry for the following:
>
> What was the year we are in? 1999?
> Oh, you must mean 8MB video memory on your gfx board.
> No, you can't mean that. People have 32MB gfx cards nowadays.
>
> Again, sorry for this, but I couldn't resist ;-)
Obviously you couldn't... smart ass ;-) My CSPPC is on vacation in Germany somewhere
near Oberursel :-| I'm now using an 3640 and the memory from my Retina Z3 is moved to
the motherboard of my A3000 making a total of 10MB. Now that the Retina is stripped
I'm down to using ECS.
32MB gfx board?!? not in an Amiga (yet)! in a pc, yes. The most powerfull processor
for the native Amiga is an 060 - far behind a modern PII/PIII pc. But most people who
has an 060 most likely also have a fast scsi-controller which is far ahead of the
average pc. The Amiga doesn't need massive storage and with modest raw computing power
and high troughput, a decoded image cache makes sense.
As for using this on low-color screens, the palette could be locked. This is not an
optmal solution, but better than having to wait forever if you dont want to spend big
buvk on an acceleratorboard.
Regards/
/Ole Kaas
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