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- From: fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Juergen "Rally" Fischer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga vs. PC
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 02:06:06 GMT
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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- Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- : farren@shore.net (farren user) writes:
-
- : >Sort of true, but few of them offer quite as much flexibility as the
- : >Amiga's blitter.
-
- : Who cares ? With chunky graphics you do not need flexibility in the
- : blitter.
-
- well. you only need shift bytewise, not bitwise.
- And a copy-non-zero function could replace those AND/OR operations.
-
- But if you want to do EOR or other funky fx usually done on Amiga :)
- you need a similar complex blitter.
-
- : >just to do things that the Amiga could do without imposing that extra
- : >burden on the software.
-
- : You mean without _drivers for the custom chips_ instead of _using the OS_ ?
-
- : --
- : Michael van Elst
-
- : Internet: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de
- : "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
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- fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Juergen "Rally" Fischer) =:)
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