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#Gasp! ANIM speed

    07-Jul-91 21:53:59
Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
To: John Pendergrass 76246,676
Oh, it's not just theory that 704x220x4 planes gives chip ram contention 🙂 In that mode, 65% of the original open cpu slots are used up, and 75% of all blitter slots are unavailable (or thereabouts). As everyone's been saying, chip ram access is the big blockage to doing really heavy stuff on the Amiga. The 4-byte-wide access on the A3000 is only a stop-gap measure… hopefully next year we'll see some new chips.