🚀 go-pugleaf

> Does OwnBlitter() actually call WaitBlit()? Or will it blow up if
> OwnBlitter is called without first calling WaitBlit()?

OwnBlitter() doesn't call WaitBlit().  Also, OwnBlitter(); WaitBlit();
should be very marginally faster than WaitBlit(); OwnBlitter() since
in the previous step, the blitter can still run during the OwnBlitter()
call.  OwnBlitter() just says ``don't let anyone else start a blit,
'cause I'm gonna be using it just as soon as I do a WaitBlit().''
As a matter of fact, WaitBlit(); OwnBlitter() isn't any good, since
someone might sneak in and start a blit after your WaitBlit() returns
and before you OwnBlitter() . . . you start mucking with the registers
then, and all hell breaks loose.

(Please note that `loose' rhymes with noose and `lose' rhymes with
shoes.  You seldom loose a game or cut lose.  I've seen these two
words misused too much here and on BIX . . .  No connection to the
above posting.)                                              -tom