Forum: Amiga scene
Today, 03:43
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Have we?
I haven't forgotten about how Jobs...
Have we?
I haven't forgotten about how Jobs killed the Apple III's reliability by insisting on not having a fan in it, but that's what being a visionary is about - doing things that conventional...
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Forum: Amiga scene
Today, 02:11
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Forum: Amiga scene
Yesterday, 09:59
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Clearly he isn't talking about Ryzen 5 7600X...
Clearly he isn't talking about Ryzen 5 7600X level performance. In the late 90s and early 2000s it became obvious that CPUs of the day would not be able to render fast enough at higher resolutions. I...
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
Yesterday, 06:39
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Ah yes, I get it now. The bitmap will be chunky...
Ah yes, I get it now. The bitmap will be chunky in graphics card memory, planar otherwise. But as far as the system or application is concerned it's always planar, and it will put the bitplanes in...
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Forum: Amiga scene
Yesterday, 04:45
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Forum: Amiga scene
Yesterday, 04:02
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
21 April 2024, 08:37
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I'm a 'bit' confused by this. So when blitting...
I'm a 'bit' confused by this. So when blitting from the graphics card it automatically converts from chunky to planar?
ECS means a maximum of 6 bitplanes can be displayed. How does that work when...
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Forum: Amiga scene
20 April 2024, 06:23
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Simple.
Because you enjoyed Frontier on the...
Simple.
Because you enjoyed Frontier on the A1200, an under-powered system that was no competition to the PC or game consoles, Commodore thought they could get away with not making it as powerful...
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Forum: Amiga scene
20 April 2024, 05:09
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Forum: Amiga scene
20 April 2024, 04:30
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
20 April 2024, 02:58
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Less 'pretty', but compensated for with good...
Less 'pretty', but compensated for with good stippling and higher detail - a pretty good effort on behalf of the old speccy. Unfortunately the Amstrad CPC version is practically a direct port from...
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Forum: Amiga scene
19 April 2024, 14:07
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
19 April 2024, 13:56
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Certainly the C64's hardware was more suited to...
Certainly the C64's hardware was more suited to 2d action games. But if the C64 attracted more innovative 2d games because of its more advanced hardware, was that a good thing for the games industry?...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
19 April 2024, 12:46
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Forum: Amiga scene
19 April 2024, 06:14
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I was told this RTG P96 driver is 'not 2D...
I was told this RTG P96 driver is 'not 2D accelerated'. You seem to be talking about something else, perhaps a graphics processor in the Pi's SoC? In which case who knows what tricks it's using.
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Forum: Amiga scene
18 April 2024, 11:36
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I remember when the clone manufacturers reduced...
I remember when the clone manufacturers reduced the thickness of the metal in their cases to save money. Razor-sharp edges that would cut you, and cases so thin that they would bend under pressure...
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Forum: Amiga scene
18 April 2024, 09:29
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I'm against further delays to add minor...
I'm against further delays to add minor improvements.
I'm for an open-ended design that costs as little as possible and allows unlimited expansion with minimal redundancy.
I preferred a...
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Forum: Amiga scene
16 April 2024, 21:50
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Good policy. Commodore was an early adopter of...
Good policy. Commodore was an early adopter of IDE so they wouldn't have any trouble putting it into new models, despite the IDE standard not arriving until 1993. They way they implemented it in...
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Forum: Amiga scene
16 April 2024, 14:14
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Forum: Amiga scene
15 April 2024, 08:12
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I am hoping to do a comparison between those...
I am hoping to do a comparison between those machines this week, if the 386SX-16 motherboard I got today works (the last one died before I got the chance). I paid $160 for it so it better work or...
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Forum: Amiga scene
15 April 2024, 07:59
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The reason is you need 4 DAC08s* which aren't...
The reason is you need 4 DAC08s* which aren't cheap, plus all the support circuitry. That's probably what the Lorraine prototype had in it.
However I think that sending I2S serial data out of...
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Forum: Amiga scene
15 April 2024, 06:57
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Forum: Amiga scene
14 April 2024, 06:45
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The PC-AT ran with 1 wait state due to the slow...
The PC-AT ran with 1 wait state due to the slow RAM available at that time. This dropped the effective clock speed from 6 MHz to 5 MHz. But the 80286 accesses memory every 2 clock cycles, twice as...
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Forum: Amiga scene
14 April 2024, 04:39
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But the application doesn't manipulate the...
But the application doesn't manipulate the hardware directly. High level graphics commands and parameters are sent to the board through the driver, to be executed by the TMS310x0 chip. A driver could...
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Forum: Amiga scene
14 April 2024, 01:06
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This is not correct. Sure it had better...
This is not correct. Sure it had better gaming/animation hardware, but it wasn't ahead of the PC in other areas.
IBM introduced the PC-AT in 1984 with a 6 MHz 80286 (equivalent to or slightly...
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Forum: Amiga scene
14 April 2024, 00:26
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Forum: Amiga scene
14 April 2024, 00:09
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Forum: Amiga scene
13 April 2024, 05:00
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Forum: Amiga scene
13 April 2024, 03:42
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Forum: Amiga scene
12 April 2024, 08:48
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And?
Nonsense. The CD32 integrated...
And?
Nonsense. The CD32 integrated everything on the motherboard, with a single edge connector for future expansion. That's quite different to the average PC clone of the time.
PC cloners...
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Forum: Amiga scene
12 April 2024, 07:28
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Forum: Amiga scene
12 April 2024, 05:30
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Forum: Amiga scene
12 April 2024, 04:12
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This article has some interesting historical...
This article has some interesting historical information that some people may not know about, but the rest of it is unrealistic armchair engineering.
No, ECS could not have had 'enormously more...
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Forum: Amiga scene
11 April 2024, 01:34
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Forum: Amiga scene
10 April 2024, 10:30
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Forum: Amiga scene
10 April 2024, 09:07
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Forum: Amiga scene
10 April 2024, 08:58
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Forum: Amiga scene
10 April 2024, 06:44
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Forum: Amiga scene
10 April 2024, 06:18
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No, I'm saying the A1200 was designed in early...
No, I'm saying the A1200 was designed in early 1992. The designer has to go with the BOM price at the time, not what it might be in a year's time. He will have to justify this price to management....
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Forum: Amiga scene
10 April 2024, 05:28
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Yes, and he was worth it. Without Ali the banks...
Yes, and he was worth it. Without Ali the banks would be calling in their loans and Commodore was toast. Ali was also responsible for getting the engineers off their butts to make products that might...
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