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- From: ludvigp@ifi.uio.no (Ludvig Pedersen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: QBlit() waits for blitter to finish... ??
- Date: 3 Jan 1996 11:08:33 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
- Message-ID: <1046.6575T1156T2713@ifi.uio.no>
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- > I'm trying to use QBlit() and it doesn't seem to work like I thought it
- >would. My understanding was that I could call QBlit() with a bltnode and it
- >would return after it had put the bltnode in the queue. Then when the blitter
- >has finished, my task would be interrupted and the next bltnode in the queue
- >would be processed and my task would continue.
- > I'm using an a3000 2mb chip, 4mb fast v2.04 SAS/C v6.56,
- >and I would like to have the cpu running without having to wait for the
- >blitter. The way it is behaving now is just like if I did
-
- > OwnBlitter()...WaitBlit()...DisownBlitter()
-
- > Could someone please explain how QBlit() should work, if it works how
- >I thought it should, then at least I'll know its something I've done wrong.
-
- I had the same problem myself. Later I found out that there is a bug in
- FasterBlitter (FBL) made by Arthur Hagen.
-
- If you har using the FBL-patch, remove it or use the "SLOW" option.
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