IndivisionECS will have dual video output!

[Karlos]

That's rather impressive

Dual head ECS. Who would have thought it? Well, Jens did, obviously, but who else?

When I first got the BVision, I didn't set up the 56kHz audio hack and could still use AGA screens alongside the RTG output. It was actually quite handy for things like fullscreen spectrum emulators

[Karlos]

But since Paula never received an upgrade no software was ever written to take advantage of better audio, so any upgrade to Paula would be a waste of time.

Oh, I dunno. I quite like the idea of a replacement that is register compatible with Paula but extends it with a few extra features. It would be cool if the incoming sample data was internally upsampled to 16/24-bits 44/48kHz, with optional interpolation per channel. In addition you could have a pan register for each channel. Digital output would be very nice too.

Even if all you had to start with was a global "mixer" tool that could bang these new registers directly to globally set the interpolation/panning of each channel it would be better than nothing.

[Karlos]

yeah it's a nice idea, and the old longing for such a thing is strong... But honestly, a cheap Audio DSP chip off the shelf would be soooooooooo much better it is scary!

Sure, but such a DSP could be part of the output bus of said design. I'm just talking about a legacy paula interface.

I didn't say anything about not having dedicated RAM and a full blown DSP on the other side of it (for AHI drivers perhaps).

[Karlos]

I don't think so... it looks like the Amiga thinks it displays a 640*512 (or 640*256 it doesn't matter) with 4 bitplanes, i.e. 16 colours... but the first two bitplanes display on one monitor and the other two display on the other monitor... giving two 8 colour screens... it is a bit like the old DualPlayfield effect that I used to love using to get faster blitting back in the day... but with each playfield on a different monitor. One of the few advantages of using blitplane graphics over chunky ones...

You sure that isn't a pair of 4-colour screens?  

[Karlos]

@Jens

Somewhat off-topic, have you ever thought of designing an accelerator card? Almost every A1200 accelerator card I've used has had memory access times a lot lower than is the theoretical peak for the CPU on the card. It would be rather nice to have something comparable to the CT60 Then see about an A600 version LOL!

[Karlos]

@bloodline

I think I'd prefer something like the Boxer rather than a PCI card with custom chipset on them, if that's what you are getting at

[Karlos]

Oh no! nothing like that!!! I was referring to the very early CloneA concept, I've never been  fan of the chipset on a PCI card... since I prefer to do as much in software a possible.

Ok, I just googled "CloneA". Is this what you meant by the "big one" you've been waiting for?

:roflmao: