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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Weird problem with Term 2.4 and CPUblit
- Message-ID: <92315.204742DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
- From: <DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:47:42 EST
- References: <olsen.5173@sourcery.mxm.sub.org> <jgn1pbq@rpi.edu>
- Organization: Penn State University
- Lines: 25
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- In article <jgn1pbq@rpi.edu>, pooler@vccsouth29.its.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole)
- says:
-
- >In article <olsen.5173@sourcery.mxm.sub.org> olsen@sourcery.mxm.sub.org (Olaf
- >Barthel) writes:
- >>In article <t7h1+w#@rpi.edu> pooler@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole)
- >writes:
-
- >>Scrolling will not be faster, though. If you really wish to use 16 colours h
- >wit
- >>`term', try an A4000.
- >>
-
- >Not everybody can afford to get rid of his Amiga 3000 and buy a 4000.
- >Besides,
- >the blitter in the 4000 is essentially unchanged. Granted, chip bandwidth has
- >improved because of AGA. But I find it hard to believe that The cure-all is
- >AGA. As I said, if the CPUBlit hack worked before, it should work now.
- >Something is amiss.
-
- Blitting is inherently very slow in ECS 16-color mode. It is very very slow
- if you combine that with overscan. CPUblit doesn't solve the problem.
- You could get fast scrolling with copper assist, but the OS doesn't really
- support it.
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-