Follow up Super Denise question..
From Wikipedia (the font of all knowledge.. ;-) :
The ECS Denise chip offers Productivity (640×480 non-interlaced) and SuperHires (1280×200 or 1280×256) display modes (also available in interlaced mode), which are however limited to only 4 on-screen colors. Essentially, a 35 ns pixel mode was added plus the ability to run arbitrary horizontal and vertical scan rates. This made other display modes possible, but only the aforementioned modes were supported originally out of the box. For example, the Linux Amiga framebuffer device driver allows the use of several other display modes. Other improvements were the ability of the blitter to copy regions larger than 1024×1024 pixels in one operation and the ability to display sprites in border regions (outside of any display window where bitplanes are shown). ECS also allows software switching between NTSC and PAL video modes.
So, Super Denise gave us Productivity and SuperHires...
Is it also required for PAL/NTSC switching? Or will Kickstart 2 (and the Super Agnus?) allow that?
I've got the DKB Megachip and 2M CHIP now in my A500, and Kickstart 2 is on its way..
(yes, 2.x. My A1000 has 1.x and my A1200 has 3.x, so it just made sense.. ;-)
I don't think I'd ever need Productivity/Superhires on my A500, but PAL switching would be nice..
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(to be fair, the Wikipedia article is about ECS, not just Denise. So they aren't saying that Denise is required for PAL/NTSC switching, just ECS.. I'm just not sure if Agnus and Denise are both required.)
