Super Bitmaps, Super Agnus

Article View: comp.sys.amiga.tech

Article #13190

Back to comp.sys.amiga.tech Previous Next

#13190

From: Alan Bland
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 01:44

17 lines
1188 bytes

I'm working on a program that uses varying sizes of superbitmaps,
and I would like it to take advantage of the larger (2K?) superbitmaps
available with the ECS, as well as working on non-ECS Amigas.
Is there a way for a program to determine if superbitmaps larger
than 1024 x 1024 are supported on a given Amiga?  When the user selects
an option that requires a larger superbitmap, I would like to give a
reasonably friendly error message rather than crashing or producing other
weird results.  I don't currently have any of the ECS chips (not even Super
Agnus) but I would like the program to work without change on Amigas
equipped with ECS.

Thanks,
-- 
-- Alan Bland
-- att!druwy!mab == mab@druwy.ATT.COM
-- AT&T Bell Laboratories, Denver CO
-- (303)538-3510    "Musicians do it in the MIDI of the night"

Technical Details

Message-ID: <4577@druwy.ATT.COM>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!emory!att!drutx!druwy!mab

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!emory!att!drutx!druwy!mab
From: mab@druwy.ATT.COM (Alan Bland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Super Bitmaps, Super Agnus
Keywords: 2K superbitmaps
Message-ID: <4577@druwy.ATT.COM>
Date: 22 Dec 89 01:44:37 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
Lines: 17