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- From: barnhoorn@nlev00 ()
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Text to fastmem.
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 09:57:35 GMT
- Organization: Alcatel Bell
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- References: <Ronald.07vo@noblehouse.xs4all.nl> <DoAzxo.AKz.0.-s@cs.vu.nl>
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- In article <DoAzxo.AKz.0.-s@cs.vu.nl>, irmen@cs.vu.nl (Irmen de Jong) writes:
- >Errm does the Text() function indeed have this chipram limitation?
- >Don't blame me if I'm wrong but isn't it legal to construct a rastport
- >and bitmap in FastRam and use the usual graphics.library functions on it?
- >(Never tried it -- yet)
- >
- No Irmen, the blitter is used for rendering the text in the bitmap,
- therefor the bitmap should reside in chipmem.
- It is legal to construct a rastport and bitmap in FastRam, but do
- not expect graphics.library to be able to blit in them.
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- Jaco Barnhoorn barnie@xs4all.nl
- Software Test Engineer barnhoorn%nlev00@btmv56.se.bel.alcatel.be
- Alcatel Telecom Systems
- Rijswijk, The Netherlands
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