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- From: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
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- Subject: Re: Possible loss of the Copper (was Re: AB3D II beats Quake....)
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 12:38:00 GMT
- Organization: Video On Line
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- >>: No it doesn't. It does use the copper to *load* the scroll
- >>: registers, but how that is different (or better) than loading the
- >>: (hold) scroll registers directly with the CPU, I don't know.
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- Your coding imagination is ~zero.
- If the copper will be slightly improved it will allow also horizontal screen
- dragging, meaning hardware windows, each WINDOW (not screen..) with its
- resolution and color mode.
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- Now go and try to do it with the PowerPC 690 2000Mhz CPU.
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