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- From: l150717@proffa.cc.tut.fi (L{hteenm{ki Jussi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Chunky for Amigas
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 13:53:59 GMT
- Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Computing Centre
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- There has been much debate if new amigas should be equipped with
- chunky handling capabilities. I really don't see why it is made such a
- big number in terms, that it will cost too much and it is hard to plant on
- the old boards. The truth is that Amiga already handles the graphics as
- chunky, DMA retrieves data from BPLDATA-registers and converts it to
- come out as chunky to decide the color. All it really needed would be a
- bit to decide wheather you want to use planar or chunky ie. wheather you
- want to convert the data from the registers or not... Blitter and all the
- others would remain the same, as they are just for handling memory, not it's
- presentation on screen...
-
- -Juza
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