CompuServe Messages

"From what I understand, the 1200 should be able to animate at high frame rates just as well as the A4000." Not exactly. It depends on how the scene is being animated, blitter vs. cpu. If it's the blitter then there should be no difference, but if it's the CPU (as in ANIMs), then there will be a difference. I notice a slowdown in ANIM speed on my A4000 when I turn off the CPU caches. I have alot more comparisons to make, but already it seems that an 8bitplane(256/256K colors) 640×400 de-interlaced ANIM moves as quickly on the A4000 as a 4bitplane(16 colors) 640×400 interlaced ANIM on the A3000. I was able to get a 16 color hires interlace ANIM with over 1/4-screensize delta to do 60fps on the A4000. Next I will experiment with 8 bitplane ANIMs. -Chris