🚀 go-pugleaf

cree@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Michael Cree) writes:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University (ldo@waikato.ac.nz) wrote:
> > In article <Byys6D.9Ay@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>, cree@elec.canterbury.ac.nz
> > >
> > > For animation the Commodore engineers claim that 2000 fps can be done on 
> > > Amiga 4000 (25MHz 68040 based machine) through the operating system.
> 
> > What you're neglecting to mention, of course, is that those frames have to 
> > in RAM first. And not just any RAM, but "chip" RAM, of which you're only al
> > to have a total of 2MB, even on the newest machines (or so I'm told).
> 
> Granted.
> 
> However the point is that for real time animation there is plenty of time
> to either render the images or pull them off disk, since only 50/2000 of
> cpu time is being used to transfer image data from a frame buffer into the
> visible screen. Thus only one extra screenfull of chip RAM need be allocated.
 
OK, all those ibm lovers that are saying about Amigas being useless for 
Animation, well you know the Channel 2 and Mobil Sports animations, they 
are BRILLIANT, and DONE ON AMIGA!  Kiss it babe!