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- From: bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Bernd Meyer)
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- Subject: Re: Possible loss of the Copper (was Re: AB3D II beats Quake....)
- Date: 4 Apr 1996 07:24:45 GMT
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- Juergen "Rally" Fischer (fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE) wrote:
- : Chris Brown (cbrown@armltd.co.uk) wrote:
- : : In article <2726.6661T189T1181@mbox.vol.it>,
- : : Fabio Bizzetti <bizzetti@mbox.vol.it> wrote:
- : : >
- : : >a 640*512 physical screen? 50 frames / sec scroll, with 0 CPU or AGA time.
- : The nice thing is that the Amiga DOES it while all programs I
- : saw on VGA (linux/x) use the blitter.
-
- Yeah, sure Juergen. Do you want me to mail the relevant source files
- of XFree3.1.2 to you?
-
- You haven't the slightest clue of what you are talking about, so why don't
- you just let it go?
-
- : : like the Amiga can, the only difference being that parallax is easier
- : : on the Amiga due to the planar display. I'm using a Linux box here
- : : right now with a 1280*1024 screen, and it scrolls beautifully.
- :
- : I bet below 50hz! (or is it linux on Amiga ? :)
-
- No, I bet it's closer to 75Hz. The "start of display memory" is sampled
- at every vsync, so that's how often it "scrolls".
-
- Juergen, have you ever even SEEN a linux PC running X?
-
- Bernie
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