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MIPS & other benchmarks

    05-Dec-92 13:32:10
Fm: Timothy Shaw 70046,10
To: Marlene Zenker/SYSOP 76701,250
Come on Steve. If you are working with a 486/33 DX with an ATI Ultra card, the video is so much faster its not funny. I have written scrolling routines for both the Amiga and the Windows 3.X environments. I have both machines sitting right here and if I scroll the same amount of text in the same size windows with the Amiga having only 4 bit planes and the PC having 8, the Amiga looks like a horrible dog. By the way, the text is colored so the speed improvements incorporated into the console device under 3.0 would be rendered useless had I chose to use it. The central code is very similar so code efficiency can be ruled out. One other tid bit, my scrolling routines on the PC with work with any video card with a driver for Windows. Don't try that on the Amiga! Tim