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- From: douyang@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Darwin Ouyang)
- Subject: Re: Possible loss of the Copper (was Re: AB3D II beats Quake....)
- Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
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- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 05:43:28 GMT
- References: <4iu7hb$utt@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <2726.6661T189T1181@mbox.vol.it> <4jmkma$4s0@valour.pem.cam.ac.uk> <4jsj9c$i7q@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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- In article <4jsj9c$i7q@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>,
- Juergen "Rally" Fischer <fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> wrote:
- >Chris Brown (cbrown@armltd.co.uk) wrote:
- >: In article <2726.6661T189T1181@mbox.vol.it>,
- >: Fabio Bizzetti <bizzetti@mbox.vol.it> wrote:
- >: >
- >: >a 640*512 physical screen? 50 frames / sec scroll, with 0 CPU or AGA time.
- >The nice thing is that the Amiga DOES it while all programs I
- >saw on VGA (linux/x) use the blitter.
-
- And how does the Amiga "DO" this? Without the blitter?
-
- >Even if the VGA blitter was fast enough, all current OS-based screens
- >jerk just because the mouseupdate is not display synced. (timer, no
- >vblank interrupt used).
-
- The VGA card does NOT have a blitter.
-
- An ACCELERATED SVGA card will.
- The driver for the accelerated SVGA card may or may not have the display
- synced. (With PCI video cards, interrupt sharing is not a problem.)
- And if the mouse is a hardware cursor (driver support) it won't flicker
- either.
-
- >yes, and the Amiga one allows use of custom hardware => 50Hz.
- >I also vote for API driven special hardware.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- This is EXACTLY what an accelerated SVGA video card is.
-
- It is a specialized set of coproessors (blitter, line draw, fill, scale,
- colour map, etc.) that is accessible through a standard API (of some
- sort) implemented by the OS and the device specific driver.
-
- Darwin Ouyang
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