jaguar development questions

[Kyo]

i've been wondering on this for awhile...

 

1) can the jag handle compression and unpack the data in real time?

 

2) can the jag do Anti-Aliasing?

[TXG/MNX]

i've been wondering on this for awhile...

 

1) can the jag handle compression and unpack the data in real time?

 

2) can the jag do Anti-Aliasing?

 

The jag can compress/decompress pretty fast using Bpeg and some other routines I thought ICE packer aswell.

 

Anti-Aliasing, have to look in the manual but maybe some else can answer this.

[Kyo]

i've been wondering on this for awhile...

 

1) can the jag handle compression and unpack the data in real time?

 

2) can the jag do Anti-Aliasing?

 

The jag can compress/decompress pretty fast using Bpeg and some other routines I thought ICE packer aswell.

 

Anti-Aliasing, have to look in the manual but maybe some else can answer this.

 

thanks for the info.

i've been wanting to try and make some games for the jag/jag cd for awhile now,it's just that i dont have the needed tools for it.

[Matthias]

Hello!

 

i've been wondering on this for awhile...

 

1) can the jag handle compression and unpack the data in real time?

 

Look into the NATIVE-sources to learn how background-decompression can be handled (NATIVE uses ICE-compressed graphics).

As LinkoVitch said, there are several other compression-types available (all software-based).

 

 

2) can the jag do Anti-Aliasing?

 

Of course: by software you (the developer) have to provide.

 

Regards

Matthias

[Kyo]

again, thanks for your help guys.

[Stone]

You might have to find a way to do it in the background while co-operating with other threads though - on of the reasons Native has no sound is because the DSP spends a lot of time decompressing the graphics as it goes along.

 

Stone

[Kyo]

You might have to find a way to do it in the background while co-operating with other threads though - on of the reasons Native has no sound is because the DSP spends a lot of time decompressing the graphics as it goes along.

 

Stone

 

i doubt it, but can the 68k be programmed to unpack the data before it's sent to the main processors?

[LinkoVitch]

You might have to find a way to do it in the background while co-operating with other threads though - on of the reasons Native has no sound is because the DSP spends a lot of time decompressing the graphics as it goes along.

 

Stone

 

i doubt it, but can the 68k be programmed to unpack the data before it's sent to the main processors?

 

That would most likley be a bad idea, as the 68K has no internal memory so has to run on the bus, which means it gets interupted by the other CPU's quite a bit. So would most likley either slow down or be slowed down by other CPU's

 

I think 68K ideally in a perfect world should be off

 

You can always write your own compression algorithm, or provide extra hardware on the cart to do this...

 

@matthias, either you have a time machine and saw this post before I posted it, or you meant TXG in your post

[Kyo]

You might have to find a way to do it in the background while co-operating with other threads though - on of the reasons Native has no sound is because the DSP spends a lot of time decompressing the graphics as it goes along.

 

Stone

 

i doubt it, but can the 68k be programmed to unpack the data before it's sent to the main processors?

 

That would most likley be a bad idea, as the 68K has no internal memory so has to run on the bus, which means it gets interupted by the other CPU's quite a bit. So would most likley either slow down or be slowed down by other CPU's

 

I think 68K ideally in a perfect world should be off

 

You can always write your own compression algorithm, or provide extra hardware on the cart to do this...

 

@matthias, either you have a time machine and saw this post before I posted it, or you meant TXG in your post

 

 

hmmm. a sort of data decompression chip. sounds like a good challange!

[Matthias]

Hello LinkoVitch!

 

 

@matthias, either you have a time machine and saw this post before I posted it, or you meant TXG in your post

 

Oh, sorry, i think it's time that somebody adds "Quoting from different sources" to this board. :-)

 

And unfortunately i am not an AmericanJaguarfan, else i could recall Rene's handle by thinking of "ThanXGiving/MiNuX"

 

Regards

Matthias

[Kyo]

another thing that i was thinking about:

 

is it possible to do a sort of Cart+CD combo such like KoF '95 for the saturn?