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- From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware Manual)
- References: <i5ckVB8w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us> <paulk.2r1u@terapin.com>
- Message-ID: <jbickers.0loi@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 03:22:50 PST
- Organization: TAP
- Lines: 25
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- Quoted from <paulk.2r1u@terapin.com> by paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz):
-
- > overhead of Draw(), but who actually wants to sit through vektor
- > demos anyway?? They're BORING.
-
- IYHO.
-
- > About the only "contraint" I can think of that you have by going
- > through the system is that copperlists can't be as fancy.
-
- You have all sorts of possible interference with the resources you
- need to use. There may not be enough CHIP RAM, or the audio.device
- may be in use, or controlling the display registers and also
- trying to use the OS for double-buffering may be out of the
- question, or the timing for changing bitmap pointers within each
- scanline may be thrown off, etc.
-
- You may also want to try and make it harder for people to rip your
- graphics or music.
-
- This whole thing about trying to make demo coders use the OS is
- akin to trying to make all painters use crayons, IMHO.
- --
- *** John Bickers, TAP. jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***
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