hnl_dk wrote:
I would like "ECS on PCI"-card, that would be nice :-D
I don't want AGA, I want ECS :-D
Who has the IP for the ECS chips???
Maybe they could combine it into one chip, might make it 64/128/256bit but remain the compatibility :-o
That would be a great solution. Having new features doesnt mean you have to ditch all the old ones.
To get a bit technical...
If you stick 0x13 in ax and then do an int 10h on a pc (even with a mighty radeon 9700) guess what? you're in VGA 320x200 8-bit screenmode. And what happens if you then write some random values to a000000h? Yep, pixels appear on the screen! Its called backwards compatibility. Has this held the PC back? I don't think so!
What will happen if you write to $dff100 on an A1?
Crash!
