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- From: "Jyrki Saarinen" <jsaarinen@kone.fipnet.fi>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 15:00:11 UT
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- Subject: Re: Amiga doesn`t need Pl
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- > Minor point, perhaps, but I now believe it _is_ possible to blit a
- > smaller part of the whole screen (horizontally) with C2P. It's just a
- > matter of setting the destination width, height and modulo right for
- > the final blitter pass. All the rest is the same as before using
- > compact chip buffers the same size as the smaller window.
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- Yep, since the third pass is still done in "blit buffers",
- and finally the fourth pass does the blits to each plane
- separately, so this is what I have been wondering too.
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- Why this was earlier "impossible"?
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