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The early VGA chipsets were very slow. They also didn't have any of the sprite & tile features that Amigas had. On a generic 286 you could swap out the stock I
by wmil 3y ago
The early VGA chipsets were very slow. They also didn't have any of the sprite & tile features that Amigas had.
On a generic 286 you could swap out the stock ISA VGA video card for a Diamond SpeedStar and the improvement was crazy.
- LargoLasskhyfv 3y agoThat was still true with VLB(VESA Local Bus) and later revisions of the Tseng ET4000 chipset. Which was what made the SpeedStars fly. (At 50Mhz! Harr!)
- bombcar 3y agocarmack and friends getting sprites to work on DOS machines was a technical feat. I think they used it for commander keen.