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Hello, ng_dead Rom> OMG!!! Has anyone really found a blitter engine with hardware Rom> collisions??? %) Rom> Name of the card or video chip? What does the blitter engine have to do with it? Far Away has no collisions in spriteiles either modes!! Moreover, collisions were considered in its American ancestors TMS9900 and TMS9918, but for some reason the Japanese threw them out and added raster modes and blitter, why would that be? ;) But there is nothing fundamental about simultaneous checking of collisions during blitting there is nothing insoluble. There will be some nuances depending on the sequence operations, but that’s it. And even the most severe cases can be circumvented, for example by using a separate collision buffer (although I have a hard time imagining where such may be necessary), fortunately there is more than enough speed. Ser> Which one is better? Ser> I'm not a professional, and I want someone to explain it to me. Ser> Have you seen the A600 running at 7 MHz with 1 MB CHIP RAM? And she has ECS. Ser> For ZX, in my opinion, it will be enough. ng_> I would even say - “where is it better?” Oh, what emuls have I tried... In your opinion, ECS is the height of perfection? Funny. :D “Better” can be done, at least by stupidly increasing the quantitative characteristics -colors, layers, speed... Moreover, we are limited only by the capabilities of ECS on today is simply stupid - it will have almost no effect on costs. On my own such cheating is uninteresting; it is much more important to provide flexibility and convenience for coder. And another thing is that the Amiga chipset was not sharpened for pathetic 16 bits of the address bus, memory with the processor and other tasks is shared there, on Spec everything is completely different... you can wrap some of Spec's limitations in his benefit. And in those days the chipset could have been brought to perfection - but apparently they were in a hurry, exceeded the estimate, and we may even consider further improvements unprofitable (company Komodore is notorious for her penchant for saving pennies, which was her undoing.)