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That would be the A2024 which is emulated by WinUAE. It did not flicker or have long persistence phosphor. What it did have was frame buffer RAM on-board. The v
by mgk123 4y ago
That would be the A2024 which is emulated by WinUAE. It did not flicker or have long persistence phosphor. What it did have was frame buffer RAM on-board. The video signal output by the Amiga determined which 1/4 or 1/6 of the screen was refreshed. The driver code had a feature where the pane containing the mouse pointer could be refreshed more frequently.
- actionfromafar 4y agoWhoa! That's a rudimentary compression scheme to decrease latency.
- KurvaKing 4y ago
- mgk123 4y agoIf you want to know the details of how it works, see US patent 4851826: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4851826A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US4851826A/en BBoAH has a pic of an actual A2024: https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=863 https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=863 There was also a separate video card containing the framebuffer hardware, that could be connected to a "normal" high-res mono monitor: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/moniterm http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/moniterm
- rbanffy 4y agoThere are brilliant hacks and terrible kludges. This is the latter. Yikes!