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Path: informatik.tu-muenchen.de!fischerj
From: [e-mail] (Juergen "Rally" Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS frien
Date: 8 Feb 1996 14:54:17 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, "Jyrki Saarinen" <[e-mail]> writes:
|>
|> > > Gloom Deluxe would be faster on an A1200 if it didn't kill the OS and
|> > > if it used QBlit() for c2p.
|> >
|> > How using QBlit() ever be faster that killing the OS and hitting
|> > hardware on a 1200? I mean, you can still do async blitting with the
|> >áhardware only.

The thing is: Gloom is unideal on A1200, because it doesn't use
blitter assistance (And blitterasistance is useful up to 030-25 or
higher, depends on the effect).

So setup gloom into the "hardware" mode, and it will still be lot
slower compared to using OS alive and async blitter c2p via qblit.

|>
|> It is not. But it is as fast and with QBlit() there is less
|> hassle.
|>
|> --                               _
|> a Stellar programmer          _ //
|> "Amiga - back for the future" \X/
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