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- From: samy@news.sfu.ca (Sam Yee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: C2P
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 05:35:43 GMT
- Organization: Simon Fraser University
- Message-ID: <4d27jf$gi2@morgoth.sfu.ca>
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- (please e-mail to jeremym@wimsey.com)
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- fischerj@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Juergen "Rally" Fischer) writes:
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- >|> Are you using HAM mode? You can get excellent speed only updating the lower
- >|> four bitplanes and interlacing lores screens, alternating odd/even chunky
- >|> pixels.
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- >cool, have you done a demo with your idea ?
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- Not yet. Have no access to an Amiga right now. The basic idea is to use
- 16-bit chunky pixels in R4G4B4B4R3G3B3B3R2G2B2B2R1G1B1B1R0G0B0B0 format
- and do a two pass (4- and 8-bit) C2P on the lower four bitplanes. The upper
- two bitplanes in HAM mode are set to display RGBBRGBB... If you use
- movep.w to output your chunky words, you don't need to do the 8-bit pass,
- if you do the 4-bit with blitter.
- This gives you a 16-bit 2x2/2x1 truecolour mode on all Amigas. Also you need to
- setup the copper to swap screens every 1/60th or 1/50th of a second, and shift
- the screen display right two pixels to fill in the odd/even pixels.
- You can do the same with an interlaced screen, but the non-interlaced
- flicker version looks cleaner (tried a dpaint anim using the same framerate
- and it looks better than interlaced).
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- And if you have the luxury of an AGA machine, you can set up a hires HAM
- screen (640x100 or 640x200) and get a 160x100 or 160x200 display without
- the need to flicker screens back and forth.
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- >if the cpu is quick enough, and the renderer is dirty enough to get conversion
- >for free ;) then you should even be able to copy a 1x1 screen in 1/2 frame! =:o
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- >but maybe you got to wait for PPC to get it for free ;)
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- >would be especially interesting for all A3000 users! (quick cpu but no AGA)
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- jeremym@wimsey.com
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