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Re: What is the real power of Akiko chip in cd32 ?
« on: November 04, 2011, 10:48:12 AM »
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Had the Akiko been implemented in such a fashion that you fed it your 8 bitplane addresses and then simply wrote 8 longwords of chunky pixels to it at a time and it in turn wrote them to ChipRAM incrementing the address pointers as it went, then it wouldn't have sucked.


Should have been a blitter mode :-/

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Re: What is the real power of Akiko chip in cd32 ?
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2011, 08:30:16 PM »
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It should have been a Lisa mode - so no data at all would have to get moved twice (or even more).
True, but you would still probably want to render to fast ram and then copy the entire frame to chip ram in one go...