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- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 12:14:59 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Amiga doesn`t need Pl
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- From: john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx)
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- In a message of 25 Feb 96 Peter McGavin wrote to All:
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- PM> From: peterm@maths.grace.cri.nz (Peter McGavin)
-
- PM> john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx) writes:Blitter
- PM> assistance: [...] impossible to
- >> C2P a smaller part of the whole screen
- >> (horizontally),
-
- Add '1 MB Agnus required' to this list (yet another hardware specific
- optimisation C2P needs to take into account).
-
- PM> Minor point, perhaps, but I now believe it _is_ possible to blit a
- PM> smaller part of the whole screen (horizontally) with C2P. It's just a
- PM> matter of setting the destination width, height and modulo right for the
- PM> final blitter pass. All the rest is the same as before using compact
- PM> chip buffers the same size as the smaller window.
-
- This final blitter pass, would this be an additional blitter-pass 'normally'
- not needed? If so it would be possible. Otherwise I think it isn't possible
- as the Destination modulo MUST be zero (remember that only 1 word is copied
- before each modulo is updated -- the BlitterWindow is after all only 1 word
- wide, but VERY high, which is what makes the BlitterC2P trick work in the first
- place).
-
- Grtz John
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