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Offline TheBilgeRatTopic starter

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I am confused as to exactly what each does for you in terms of display.
 

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RTG Graphics Card contains a Graphics processor chip off loading work from the computer's CPU.  It may also give you increased resolutions and colors.

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?amiga=3000&cat=rtg

The Indivision solution pretty much just allows you to use modern VGA monitors with your Amiga.  The Indivision sits on top of the existing graphics chip in the Amiga converting the signals to VGA.  It's actually a pretty genius solution, I really like mine.   But you will be limited to the native Amiga resolutions, colors, and speed.
 

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  But you will be limited to the native Amiga resolutions, colors, and speed.


Technicly correct, but some of the supported resolution would be 100% unsuable with any monitor if it wasn't for the Indivisions due to extremly low refresh rates.

Also since the Indivison-ECS is (allmost) complete Denise-replacement getting all raw data Denise gets so it's possible to missue is as some sort of advanced chunky-framebuffer doing quite well on some games adapted to it.

The Indivison-AGAs on the other side sit on the digital-output of Lisa and are less flexible/suitable when it comes to these thinks (but AGA does allow greater bandwidth anyways, so the results are similar).
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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I could be wrong but isn't Jens working on a  driver that will allow the Indivision ECS to be used in a similar way to an RTG card? From what I've read on the forums it suggests that it will be 12-bit reduced from 16-bit at 1024x768(i.e. more colours and higher resolution)and the software will be Shapeshifter based.
 

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I could be wrong but isn't Jens working on a  driver that will allow the Indivision ECS to be used in a similar way to an RTG card? From what I've read on the forums it suggests that it will be 12-bit reduced from 16-bit at 1024x768(i.e. more colours and higher resolution)and the software will be Shapeshifter based.



new version of ADoom, which supports the Indivision GFX 256 colour direct chunky display of Indivision ECS
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Nice Ports on AmiNet!
 

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OK that makes sense.  So - RTG does not interface with the indivision at all, it does its own thing
 

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yeah, rtg is more for replacing the amigas own graphics chips, for applications that support it