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- From: leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry)
- Subject: Re: The FALCON - too slow ??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.115143.24395@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- References: <1992Nov11.040149.6428@rmece49.upr.clu.edu> <1992Nov12.120947.7843@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <annius.721647206@freyr>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:51:43 GMT
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- In article <annius.721647206@freyr> A.V.Groenink@research.ptt.nl writes:
- >leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry) writes:
- >
- >>It is slow because Atari STILL haven't made use of STe's hardware scrolling
- >>(which I assume is available on the Falcon) in TOS. Apart from the slowdown
- >
- >I suspect you don't even know what the 'hardware scrolling' facilities of the
- >STE actually are (and the same for the other post in this thread mentioning the
- >fact that `nobody uses the STE hardware scrolling'.).
-
- I know that the screen start address to be varied by a word at a time allowing
- vertical scrolling by adding/subtracting the number of bytes in line times the
- number of lines you wish to scroll by.
- I don't know whether you can specify a vertical offset (where the screen
- starts scanning at the screen address+offset and after reaching screen
- address+size of screen continues at screen address), but probably not since
- this can easily be done in software using the timer B counter.
- In the case of horizontal scrolling you can specify both a horizontal offset
- and a number of bytes to skip between scan lines to give a virtual screen
- wider than the one displayed.
- Of course, these features only apply to the whole screen - to scroll in a
- window you must use the blitter, which should be fast enough, however many
- programs just redraw the whole window when it is scrolled (Which can be faster
- if no blitter is fitted).
-
- - Leo
-
- >
- >--
- >Annius Groenink -- Universiteit Utrecht -- PTT Research Leidschendam
-