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In article <C1GrMM.C2C@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk>, mapmh@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk (Mark Hagger) writes:
|> In the referenced article, s914534@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (UT) writes:
|> >jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no (Joern Moe) writes:
|> >
|> [deletions]
|> >
|> >Also the Falcon doesn't have the custom graphics chips that the 1200 has,
|> >so its going to be slower still. Remember the ST 68000 was faster than the
|> >the 68000 used in the Amiga - yet most Amiga games ran faster than their ST
|> >counterparts - because everything had to be done by the CPU in the ST.
|> >
|> Depends what you mean by most?  Granted anything that was sprite based
|> run a damn site faster on an Amiga, but anything that was processor
|> intensive like any 3d simulations or other such interesting games
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Not strictly true, the custom chips can be used to draw polygons in hardware,
much faster than the main processor can. Most of the 3D stuff that ran slowly was
ported ST stuff, which wasn't reprogrammed to take advantage of the graphics
processor :-)

Chris Brown