Accelerators for 500?
24-Dec-90 14:45:05
Sb: #10613-Accelerators for 500?
Fm: Black Belt Systems 76004,1771
To: Christopher Laprise 70431,2172
It's also the "fault" of the Amiga's chip ram design… when running four
bitplanes in hires the processors (any type of processor) access to the
chip ram is severely limited; it can only get in there during sync and
blanking – in other words, it spends a great deal of time waiting, and NOT
updating anything. A faster processor really helps because it gets more
done in the short time that the ram IS avaialable to it.
For this to change, the entire custom chip set would have to be redesigned
to handle a faster bus, and that's not been done in any released machine to
date.
Ben
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