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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: C2P
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 21:54:51 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Juergen "Rally" Fischer (fischerj@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) wrote:
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- : In article <4dkbml$em2@maureen.teleport.com>, sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem) writes:
- : |> Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- : |> Jorge Acereda Macia (ii202@rossegat.uji.es) wrote:
- : |> : Thore Bjerklund Karlsen (tbk@sn.no) wrote:
- : |>
- : |> : > Why not just measure it in scanlines? Why ms?
- : |>
- : |> : 20 ms. = 1 frame.
- : |>
- : |> : IMHO it's better to measure ms. instead of scanlines... Scanlines
- : |> : measuring is harder in OS-friendly code.
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- : no timer is more accurate than showing the timing via raster display.
- : you know any method with less overhead than the 8 cycles for a write
- : to colorregister ?
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- I use color register miself... then do iteration*videorate = mpixel
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- : |>
- : |> pixel/second make even more sense... 20ms mean nothing to me?
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- : well, pixel/second is not interestong, who wants to look an animation
- : at 1fps ?
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- Who want to look at a 320x256 display when I'm interested in 256x200 ?
- mpixel is eassy to manipulate to your need.And you wont come across
- a claim like I can c2p in 8ms... and then realize it was 160x200 screen
- 2x2 he was talking about :)
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- : |> 20ms to convert 320x256 pixel: is what you need to type.
- : |> Or Just say type: 4mpix/s
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- : ok, the latter is less chars, true :)
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- I wanted to point out the resolution.. its totaly non standart
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- Stephan
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