From: roshicorp@ROSHI.com (Chuck Davis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: PPC cards Date: 9 Oct 1997 15:29:49 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <61it9d$ifi@suriname.earthlink.net> References: <1997Oct9.154527@cantva> <3426693D.794B@aber.ac.uk> <605vi3$ajp@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <34269122.41C6@elixir.e.kth.se> <60a15c$rom@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <34290D50.41C6@elixir.e.kth.se> <615ebv$2f6@wombat.cs.monash.edu.au> <3438DE8C.167E@elixir.e.kth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.217.3.11 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Voyager/AmigaOS 1.0 Path: 195.95.96.10!news.unisource.be!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!cosy.sbg.ac.at!newsfeed.Austria.EU.net!EU.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-peer-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news.idt.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!prodigy.com!nntp.earthlink.net!usenet Xref: 195.95.96.10 comp.sys.amiga.misc:156159 comp.sys.amiga.games:116063 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:182395 On 9 Oct 97 15:45:27 +1200, nrw20@csc.canterbury.ac.nz wrote: > Carl Skedinger writes: > > > But you forgot the catch. > > How much memory does your card have? > > Let's say you have 8 MB. This means your card can scroll 1.4 screens > > without transfering anything over your PCI bus. I don't think a > > 1.4-screen shoot'em up would be any significant success...:) > > You forget... this was discussing the A\Box architecture. > It uses DMA. (ie: screen-memory is in main memory.) > look as www.phase5.de if you're not sure about the issues involved > with this architecture. > > Nathan. > Somebody prove me wrong; but it seems to me that the RIVA 128 _is_ the A\Box architecture on a chip. Why for art thou A\Box? > > Chuck Davis... http://www.his.com/~emerald7/roshi.cmp/roshi.html