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- From: wille@june.cs.washington.edu (Robert Wille)
- Subject: 1024x1024 raster limitation
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.184752.9782@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington Computer Science
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 18:47:52 GMT
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- I've read that a raster must be less than 1024x1024. I've noticed that
- the blitter (pre-ECS, anyway) cannot perform a blit larger than 1024 in
- either dimension. Are there any other things in the system that preclude
- having a raster larger than that? Like, the video chip's modulus register?
-
- The reason I'm asking this is because I'd like to create a bitmap for a
- Screen that is 640x400x16 colors and is interleaved. So, to intuition I
- should present a bitmap that appears to be 2560x400x4 planes and to the
- blitter 640x1600x1 plane. As long as my blit's aren't longer than 1024
- lines (corresponding to 256 scan lines), the blitter should be able to
- do blits into this bitmap. Are there any constraints in the video hardware
- or the OS that would not allow me to have a bitmap that is 2560 pixels wide?
-
- --
- Robert
-
- There is evidence that the brain is like a computer. If that's true,
- then there really aren't any stupid people. Just people running DOS.
-