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Offline redrumloa

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Re: Is PowerVR chip (used in Dreamcast) a good one?
« on: January 29, 2004, 04:19:42 PM »
The PowerVR does tile based rendering, it only renders what the eye sees. The end result is it doesn't require the bandwidth other gfx chips do.

Basically IMO it would be a great chip to use on *present* Amigas, but drivers would be terribly hard to do.
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Re: Is PowerVR chip (used in Dreamcast) a good one?
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2004, 05:01:07 PM »
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I'd highly recommend you check out the PowerVR website then.  The PVR's drivers are open-source and documentation is easy to get.  There was a point I wanted to use the PVR in my Eddas design, but I can't afford the licensing costs.


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