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- From: idr@cs.pdx.edu (Ian D Romanick)
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- Subject: Re: Amiga doesn`t need Planar!
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 10:17:36 -0800
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- john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx) writes:
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- >How would you like the DSP being used? Using the OS? Or using a
- >'OwnBlitter()' style function and then banging the DSP directly?
-
- >In the first case the 'limited areas' would be whatever the OS supports, in the
- >latter case it would be AGA/Blitter hacking all over again, with programs
- >failing or refusing to work without the (correct) DSP.
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- What would be wrong with having some sort of AddDSPTask() function that
- would add a task to the DSP? An additional advantage to this would be
- you could easily (software wise) support multiple DSP's in one system.
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