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- From: fischerj@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Juergen "Rally" Fischer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga doesn`t need Pl
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 16:13:24 GMT
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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- Message-ID: <4hhp74$7et@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
- References: <38232667@kone.fipnet.fi> <678.6631T734T2732@sn.no> <38232761@kone.fipnet.fi> <771.6635T1284T2317@sn.no>
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- Originator: fischerj@hphalle6g.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
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- In article <771.6635T1284T2317@sn.no>, tbk@sn.no (Thore Bjerklund Karlsen) writes:
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- |> >> >No copying? In 13h? How the hell you would be dbuffering otherwise?
- |> >>
- |> >> Tweak mode? OK, OK.. It isn't mode $13 anymore, but hey... :)
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- |> >Nobody uses Mode-X nowadays
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- |> Funny one.. :)
- |>
- |> >they use 13h and a virtual
- |> >screen in system ram and copy it to video ram each frame.
- |>
- |> Yes, and? Don't you think this is possible with Mode-X? In addition
- |> you get bigger screens, faster videoaccess, double/triple/quadruple
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- AFAIK acces by cpu is _slowed down_ using mode-X.
- mode 13h trashed 256k for 64k display for some banking/more speed reason.
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- |> buffering.. The downside is ofcourse the lame addressing, but you
- |> can't really have it all.
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- doesn't this mean copying bytewise ?
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- |>
- |> --
- |> ## __/// # Thore B. Karlsen # tbk@sn.no # C64-C128D-A1200-A2000C ##
- |> ## \XX/ # Wowbagger/AFL&SSN # -c0d3r- # A1230/50MHz-2C8F/340MB ##
- |>
- |> IBM PC: I've Blown My Power Circuits.
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