Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: stud11@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be (Lode Vande Sande)
Distribution: world
Date: Thursday, 8 Oct 1992 21:14:32 +01
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
Subject: Re: Avoid the Amiga 4000

In article <8OCT199209452019@rigel.tamu.edu>, ALAN C. WEN
(cpw8034@rigel.tamu.edu) writes :

>>    Normally I never reply to you ; however, this is the exception.  Your
>>comments on the A4000 are noted ... thanks.  Now please take your precious
>>little comments to c.s.a.a!  I realize that everyone on the net has told you
>>this.  Mabye just mabye, by the grace of God, this time you will listen.
>>
>What Marc said about the A4000 was mostly true.  He didn't knock it on it's
>040, new chipset, nor its general design.  He mainly concentrated on its
>lack of a display enhancer as opposed to the A3000.  I'm sorely dissappointed
>as well by this.

What the hell are you crying about ?  The A4000 has exactly the same
capabilities as the A3000 in the domain of flicker-fixing, no the A4000
does better than the A3000 !!!  The A3000 has a flicker-fixer with a
switch, so you could turn it off for the modes it couldn't handle !
Well, you don't need to turn anything of on the A4000 !  All modes that
the A3000 could deinterlace, can also be created on the A4000 without
interlace AND with upto 8 bitplanes !!!  If the OS doesn't support
the promotion well, it won't be hard to patch some routines so that all
screens/views that can be display without interlace will be !

I myself also exspected some better graphics than what the A4000 got, but
don't go around saying its gfx are worse than those of the A3000, 'cause
that simply isn't true !  However I would like to have seen some increase
in resolution without having to look at that interlace stuff !  1024 x 768
in 256 colors would be just fine !  I guess I'll have to wait for the
AGAGA (or something like that) chipset !

>                  Besides, you only posted your message because "everyone on
>the net has" already told Marc to leave.  You haven't countered nor noted
>anything about what he stated right or wrong...
>
>Have fun joining in the ranks of those that lead w/o clue.
>
>alan

Now, I had an idea ... The A3000/A4000 has some PC slots and can carry a
(cheap by now) 8086(8) card and in one of those PC slots a SuperVGA card.
Now, we could use the SuperVGA from the Amiga side by using the 8086 as
a graphics processor (which doesn't need to do anything else !)

Now, I don't know if this will have the needed speed or if it would be
simpler and faster just to make a Zorro-II(I) convertor for a SuperVGA
card (like the DOMINO board uses), but you also have to keep in mind
that with this setup, you also get a PC-Emulator ... Let me know what
you guys think about it ...

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