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Re: Upgrade to 3.1 - is there a good enough reason?
« on: January 03, 2009, 10:41:57 PM »
For one thing, the AGA chipset only uses the fastest memory fetching on the highest resolutions.  On 3.1 it uses the fastest memory fetching whenever it can thus making the chips run faster.  If you're playing games you'll get better performance much of the time with Kickstart 3.1 .

For another thing the sprite handling is broken for using AGA enhanced sprites on Kickstart 3.0 .

That's just 2 bugs in graphics.library alone that make the Kickstart upgrade worthwhile.
 

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Re: Upgrade to 3.1 - is there a good enough reason?
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2009, 07:45:16 PM »
I think he meant that it's easier to play WHDLoad games with an '030 accelerator.
 

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Re: Upgrade to 3.1 - is there a good enough reason?
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2009, 08:39:46 PM »
That depends on how much extra RAM you need.  If you need more than 4 megs and a network card or more than 8 megs and no PCMCIA support, then the added memory addressing of a proper accelerator board will help.