I just got a buttload new CD32s! updated more pics!!

[alexh]

NTSC ones from Asia?

[alexh]

bloodline wrote:
Can anyone tell me what a "buster" graphics accelerator is?

I think it is what we've now come to know as the Akiko

Buster was another name commodore used for a custom chip. Maybe the Akiko was known (in house) as the CD32's Buster? Maybe that is what marketting wanted the blurb to read? Or maybe it was just a mistake? Who knows?

[alexh]

JJ wrote:
Would have been good if they had released an addon for the a1200 and a4000 that used this chip

No-one would have used it, software was faster AFAIR.

[alexh]

JJ wrote:
But surley would have helped with things like gloom and AB3D  to offload the conversion to this chip , freeing up cpu cycles for other things ?

I am sure I read the chip was critically flawed and it was better / faster to use the CPU to do everything.

I think the chunky and planar screens both had to live in chip ram which means lots of copying around etc.

[alexh]

Exactly. It was only for systems with no FAST-RAM