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- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 23:32:00 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Amiga doesn`t need Planar!
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- From: john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx)
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- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 24 Jan 96 Michael Van Elst wrote to All:
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- >> Workbench in an 8 bit chunky mode on my CV64 card, and for that, chunky
- >> rules, since the software doesn't have to do 8 single bit writes to memory
- >> to update a single pixel.
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- MVE> It hardly does 8 single bit writes to memory to update a single pixel
- MVE> as it hardly updates single pixels and this operation even requires
- MVE> more overhead than 8 writes to memory.
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- How about lines? Drawing a (near) vertical line is very expensive.
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- Grtz John
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