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- From: 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black)
- Subject: Re: AGA anim speed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.042252.2308@sol.cs.wmich.edu>
- Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
- References: <19012@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:22:52 GMT
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- Jeff_Holinski@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeff Holinski) writes:
-
- >I had one Amiga dealer tell me that the 4000 has a "page mode" for
- >animations. It's supposed to be capable of 2000 pages/second. Of coures this
- >is un-compressed animation playing from ram: so you'd need 10 to 30 megs to
- >make it usefull.
- >Personally I'm a little skepical. I've never heard of this "page mode" and I
- >can't see ANY personal computer having the bandwidth to run an animation at
- >2000 frames/second.
-
- I suppose that if you could have 2000 frames set up in chip mem
- then you could simply change screens that quick. Yet I don't see that
- happening anytime in the near future.
-
- Martin
-
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- Bill SATAN LIVES Gates is the biggest enemy to personal computers ever.
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