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- From: tbk@sn.no (Thore Bjerklund Karlsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga doesn`t need Pl
- Date: 3 Mar 1996 16:05:31 +0100
- Organization: Botswana-bean-banana faculty of nonfitting negoliums
- Message-ID: <771.6635T1284T2317@sn.no>
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- >> >No copying? In 13h? How the hell you would be dbuffering otherwise?
- >>
- >> Tweak mode? OK, OK.. It isn't mode $13 anymore, but hey... :)
-
- >Nobody uses Mode-X nowadays
-
- Funny one.. :)
-
- >they use 13h and a virtual
- >screen in system ram and copy it to video ram each frame.
-
- Yes, and? Don't you think this is possible with Mode-X? In addition
- you get bigger screens, faster videoaccess, double/triple/quadruple
- buffering.. The downside is ofcourse the lame addressing, but you
- can't really have it all.
-
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