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Forum: Nostalgia & memories 24 February 2022, 10:45
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Posted By robinsonb5
It can actually be much simpler than that - at...

It can actually be much simpler than that - at least for scaling up (scaling down is trickier, but also arguably less useful)

Internally almost everything is already built in terms of shift...
Forum: Nostalgia & memories 04 November 2021, 21:16
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Posted By robinsonb5
If I had to guess, I'd say they didn't have the...

If I had to guess, I'd say they didn't have the transistor budget in Denise for another 32 12-bit colour registers, and the requisite multiplexing or extra address decoding to expose them to the CPU....
Forum: Nostalgia & memories 17 July 2020, 20:29
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Posted By robinsonb5
Indeed - although bitplanes were at least useful...

Indeed - although bitplanes were at least useful in keeping memory usage down, considering 256K was considered a lot of RAM when the chipset was designed.
Forum: Nostalgia & memories 08 December 2017, 13:22
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Posted By robinsonb5
It's just a question of bandwidth. The...

It's just a question of bandwidth. The "unshackling" was done by making the Chip RAM bus 32-bits wide instead of 16-bits wide, and by doubling the transfer rate between the Chip RAM and chipset,...
Forum: Nostalgia & memories 08 December 2017, 01:40
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Posted By robinsonb5
Not strictly true once you consider that PC...

Not strictly true once you consider that PC graphics cards have their own video memory, which could be considered roughly equivalent to the Amiga's chip memory. (OK, in more recent years onboard...
Forum: Nostalgia & memories 19 July 2017, 13:17
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Posted By robinsonb5
Now that's an interesting point - was the ST...

Now that's an interesting point - was the ST significantly better in that regard?
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