SamuraiCrow wrote:
bloodline wrote:
Yes... AGA only requires 2 extra bits in the bit planes... And 3 extra bits in the palette table to achieve the extra colours...
The sprite hardware had a bit of an overhaul and a burst mode was added to Alice... The AGA chipset was a pathetic upgrade... Especially compared to what the PC gfx chip vendors were making at the time!!!!
Actually the PC chip makers were about 3 years later since they couldn't write hardware-accelerated drivers until Windows 95 came out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_MachATI Mach 32
Released: 1992
32-bit GUI accelerator with basic DOS support
Limited VESA VBE support
Support for 15bbp, 16bbp and 24bbp colour modes added
Video memory: 1 or 2 MiB DRAM or VRAM
Memory interface: 64-bit
Port: ISA, EISA, VLB, PCI, MCA
Integrated VGA core
100% compatible with IBM 8514/A
