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Re: Disk drive speeds

Subject: Re: Disk drive speeds
From: Jorge <user@nospam.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 04:38:15 +0000 (UTC)
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damage_x@hotmail.com writes:

>Video does eat up a lot of cycles but I think the 40x24 text display
>uses up less than a third even on NTSC systems. Most displays wouldn't
>use much more than that. The worst case scenario probably is around
>half though.

Forgot to add that a custom text screen might steal even some more. More 
lines, wide screen, etc. And for the worst case you have to consider 
player-missiles DMA as well.

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