Lorraine wrote:
bloodline wrote:
@stefcep2
Think of the Akiko c2p as little more than a buffer, the CPU writes the chunky data to the buffer from the chip ram, and then reads it back to the chip ram in a different format... As Alexh has pointed out an 020 with some fast ram and an optimized c2p fast ram to chip ram copy routine can easily outpace the much cheaper Akiko approach :-)
Remember, Akiko's main role was really CDRom stuff.
This is why I say the CD32 is fine as it is. They added a workaround for the sake of making a true console, which its simplistic nature would probably be better if the game supported it.
Adding accelerators and keyboards to a CD32 is just messing around if you ask me. You can't fault what the CD32 does on its own, and accelerators are expensive anyway.
Thinking about Commodore would only have needed to add two new modes to Lisa to have remained competitive at the time... A 256 colour packed pixel 640*256 (200 for NTSC) mode and a 256 colour packed pixel VGA mode (640*480)... That would have bought the Amiga at least two more years!!!!
Isn't that the case? Sad really. Maybe a little fastram but screenmodes were definitely the big thing missing that competitiors had, looking at it historically. (Extra power would be nice but PCs were well behind for a long time)
Someone mentioned the software and games which is always a factor. I remember Goldeneye 007 selling 64s in the masses!
TRUE!!
Gondeneye is the best game for any console ever!!
Its the only reason I got an N64, and the only game I ever really got in to.
