KONAMI M2 HARDWARE
' T4 W, t) {4 j9 t& o( F6 b9 u# W1998KONAMI就相继公布了基于M2互换机版的街机游戏开发.曾经在3D技术上吃了不少亏的KONAMI此时已经在硬件和软件技术上走到了业界前列。
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Main CPU : 2 x IBM PowerPC 602 EMPPC602FB66 : Y8 l$ p9 U3 L* Q
Custom ASICs
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Memory control, system control, and video/graphic control ( {7 X" F, m) l
Full triangle renderer including setup engine, MPEG-1 decoder hardware, DSP for audio and various kinds of DMA control and port access 9 ^/ r/ e4 v( k8 E
Random access of frame buffer and z-buffer (actually w-buffer) possible at the same time 5 X: q0 c% F! E' P0 v; |+ l' Z
CDE: Power bus connected to BDA and the two CPUs, "bio-bus" used as a low-speed bus for peripheral hardware
" l3 B; x" m' P7 i# S( hRenderer capabilities:
]* b( ^1 V2 [6 l7 y1 million un-textured triangles/s geometry rate 4 J% @3 j' x* T7 Y. }
100 million pixels/s fill rate & _2 W$ }* G( h# `- U- p
reportedly 700,000 textured polygons/s *without* gouraud shading or additional effects . M) O& u& r. D+ [4 T" q/ @- i! i
reportedly 300,000 to 500,000 textured polygons/s *with* gouraud shading, lighting and effects 6 b% Y* j- t/ f$ M3 |2 S5 P
Shading: flat shading and gouraud shading, texture mapping, decal, modulation blending, tiling (16K/128K texture buffer built-in) / w7 T$ W3 e J# Y9 M+ E& a' Z
Hardware z-buffer (16-bit) (actually a block floating point with multiple (4) range w-buffer), object-based full-scene anti-aliasing, alpha channel (4-bit or 7-bit)
$ a) G/ l2 a5 \! b# x" Y$ MResolution : 320x240 to 640x480 resolution at 24-bit color
" Q# c2 W) U7 KSound hardware - 16-bit 32-channel DSP at 66 MHz (within BDA chip) & X/ x ~% b$ {, m# c4 x: L9 |
Media - Quad-speed CD-ROM drive (600 KB/s) % Z. A8 }6 ~, G4 ]
RAM - Unified memory subsystem with 8 MB/s, 64-bit bus resulting in peak 533 MB/s bandwidth, Average access 400 MB/s.
$ t* A" _6 O2 X! y# z( K; oFull Motion Video - MPEG-1
( J# C$ |: R _9 a( k1 VWritable Storage - Memory cards from 128 KiB to 32 MiB
. d: y+ @, H' V. R; yExpansion Capabilities - 1 PCMCIA port (potentially used for Modems, Ethernet NICs, etc.) / r$ N2 A- c- a5 r7 f5 P
Roms : 8x CD Rom LW and Rom Bios
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