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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: 256 color workbench?
- Message-ID: <69749@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 01:21:46 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Nov16.164359.11853@ra.msstate.edu> <Bxv70H.JvL@fc.hp.com>
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- >Skip Sauls (skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu) wrote:
- >
- >> Try running CPUBlit -b. It seems to work fine and I have not had any
- >
- >Interesting; I must have had an old version of CPU blit. I tried on
- >that I had stored away a long time ago, and it crashed my 4000
- >instantly. (I never used it on my 2000 since it didn't help noticeably
- >with a 16 bit chip ram bus). I'll have to see if I can hunt down a new
- >version. It'd be nice to have. Right now 8 plane workbenches are
- >_really_ slow. (But 5 works nicely, and 6 is tolerable. 4 is really
- >fast. I usually use 5 planes, in SUPER72:Super High Res).
-
- Something sounds fishy here. I played around with a 4000 for some time at
- my dealer's store and 8bit WB was rather snappy (in dblNTSC & high res).
- It felt as fast as an 4 bit deep 2500/30 ESC screen. Perhaps something is
- not set properly on your machine.
-
- >More on multiview: I can get multiview to crash my system instantly by
- >doing this:
- >
- > 1. Multiview an IFF pic on your workbench screen
- > 2. Reduce the size of the multiview window. Sometimes it crashes
- > here.
- > 3. Try to use the scroll bars. If it got by step #2, it crashes here
- > on maybe 80% of the IFF files I have. If it crashes on a given
- > file, it crashes every time on that file, and if it works, it works
- > every time. I don't think there is anything wrong with the IFF
- > file itself.
-
- It does sound like something's messed up in your system. I've yet to see MV
- crash doing this, even with lots of MV's running and resizing them.
-
- > - steve
-
- -Joel
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