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- From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Chunky Pixel Mode for Low End Chip Set?
- References: <1992Dec30.040948.2144@sol.cs.wmich.edu>
- Message-ID: <paulk.30q6@terapin.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 21:58:54 PST
- Organization: BBS
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- > Well cbm's Lew said it will have chunky mode without losing its
- > bitplane nature. take that as you might interpret it.
-
- Yikes. That's the sort of prophetic pronouncement that could keep a
- whole town full of medieval theologists busy for months.
-
- I wonder if he means that there'll be some kind of address
- translation and WritePixel and WritePixelLine8 in hardware, so you
- write a byte to a fake address and the hardware splatters the bits
- out into the appropriate physical planes?
-
- Yikes.
-